Huda Fakhreddine talked about modernist movements or trends in Arabic poetry and their relationship to the Arabic literary tradition.
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00:00 Intro
1:29 Growing up with poetry
3:45 Poetry’s meaning
6:27 “Classical Arabic poetry”
10:31 Abassid Modernist poetry
14:50 Post-Abassid period
16:26 Free-verse vs. prose poetry
23:49 Poets from Adonis to Mahmoud Darwish
27:14 Present moment for Arabic poetry
30:15 Students’ takeaway
34:03 Entry points
36:07 Quick Q&A
42:47 Audience Q&A: Qasida vs. Shi’ir
45:08 Audience Q&A: Cross-cultural integration
49:33 Audience Q&A: Politicization of poetry
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