Ali Salimi; Salah al-Din Movahedi
Volume 2, Issue 5 , December 2012, , Pages 126-101
Abstract
After Balfour Declaration where the British government vowed to establish a Jewish government in the Palestinian territory, Jews assisted by Britain began to work out their plans. Among their actions was purchasing the lands owned by the Arabs and encouraging the world Jews to migrate to Palestine.
Some ...
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After Balfour Declaration where the British government vowed to establish a Jewish government in the Palestinian territory, Jews assisted by Britain began to work out their plans. Among their actions was purchasing the lands owned by the Arabs and encouraging the world Jews to migrate to Palestine.
Some Arab poets and thinkers perceived this threat, and initiated their struggle to awaken the people about this case. Ibrahim Touqan is among the poets who played a major part in composing poems of resistance and vigilanceto awaken the people of the land. He has composed many poems against Jews and Zionist purposes. Touqan, in one of his odes, poetically reasons with a Jewish poet – Reuben*** – who has composed an ode in support of the offensives of Israeli soldiers against the Palestinian nation. Touqan challengesthe claims of the Jewish poet by using the Qur'an and Torah in explaining the historic records of the Jews.
This paper has utilized the descriptive-analytical method on the two odes in studying the poetic reasoning of Ibrahim Touqan against the Jewish poet.
Rajā' Abū Ali; Tahereh Goudarzi
Volume 1, Issue 1 , December 2011, , Pages 131-154
Abstract
Mozaffar al-Navvāb, a distinguished Iraqi poet and a leading satirist, well-known in the field of social and political critique, has a privilegedstatus in contemporary Iraqi literature. He has experienced a difficult life in theperiod of political instability in Iraq and has later suffered from pressure ...
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Mozaffar al-Navvāb, a distinguished Iraqi poet and a leading satirist, well-known in the field of social and political critique, has a privilegedstatus in contemporary Iraqi literature. He has experienced a difficult life in theperiod of political instability in Iraq and has later suffered from pressure and exile; he is angry at the inability of Arab authorities to resolve social and political problems especially those related to Palestine; he is also angry at the compromising strategies of authorities as well as the inability of the Arabs to face and tackle their own problems. Mozaffar al-Navvāb expresses his anger over all these issues and the social and political shortcomings in a harshand naked language and criticizes the agents of the deplorable conditions of the Arabs; his mastery over vernacular language and his fluent Arabic has attracted a wider audience for his message.
