Anthologies - poetry
A Crack in the Wall: New Arab Poetry
Edited by Margaret Obank & Samuel Shimon
A dazzling collection of poetry highlighting the work of a new generation of Arab poets from as far as Morocco to the West and Iraq to the East. Originally written in Arabic, French and English the poems show the changing cultures of the Arab world.
Saqi books 2001 pbk. ISBN 0-86356-329-5
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Bedouin Poetry: From Sinai and the Negev
Clinton Bailey
Collected over twenty years, 113 poems reflect Bedouin attitudes to personal, social and political experiences. Each poem is presented in Arabic script, translated to English, with an introduction describing its setting and context.
Saqi Books 2002 pbk. ISBN 0-8635-6047-4
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Classical Poems by Arab Women: A Bilingual Anthology
Abdullah al-Udhari
A collection of poetry by Arab women from the Jahiliyya (pre-Islamic era) to the Andalusian period. The poems celebrate the triumph of feminine wit over the arrogance of muscle power, in a period when women were suppressed by religious and political bigotry.
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Saqi Books 1999 pbk. ISBN 0-86356-022-9
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
Mahmud Darwish, Adonis, Samih al-Qasim
Translator: Abdullah al-Udhari
Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Adonis are among the leading poets of the contemporary Arab world. This collection presents 15 translated poems by each poet, with the text of each poem printed on the pages facing the translation.
Saqi Books 1985 pbk. ISBN 0-86356-022-9
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Individual writers - poetry
Adonis
Collections of his poetry in translation:
If Only the Sea Could Sleep
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The Pages of Day and Night
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A Time Between Ashes And Roses
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Ghazi ALGOSAIBI
Dusting The Color From Roses
Translator: A.A.Ruffai
A bilingual (Arabic and English, printed on facing pages) collection of poems on the themes of love, death, the passage of time and the passing of the seasons. The voice in the poems draws on a wealth of traditions, including the classical, the chivalric, the neo-classical and the modernist.
Saqi Books 1995 pbk. ISBN 1-8733-9501-9
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Mahmud DARWISH
Selected Poems
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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
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Al-Qurashi HASAN
Spectres of Exile and Other Poems
John Heath-Stubbs and Catherine Cobham
A bilingual book of poems written by Hasan Abdallah al-Qurashi. He aims to evoke the beauty of the country to whose past and future he feels bound, condemning the perversion of its values and aspirations.
Echoes 1991 pbk. ISBN 1-8733-9505-1
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Badia KASHGARI
The Unattainable Lotus: A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry
A bilingual anthology of poetry, orbiting around eternal candles of human experience. Bypassing confusion and despair, Badia Kashgari's poetry displays a confidence to accept life on its own terms, and also reflects an Arabic sensibility in English dress.
Saqi Books 2001 pbk. ISBN 0-86356-362-7
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Nizar QABBANI
On Entering the Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani
Translator: Lena Jayyusi, Sharif Elmusa
In this collection of poems by one of the Arab world''s greatest love poets, the author pays homage to the grace and beauty of women and takes on those who dare to impose taboos on women and love.
Roundhouse Publishing 1998 pbk. ISBN 0-2927-0508-5
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