title: Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts (Three Continents Press)
author: Nizar Qabbani
description: Bassam Frangieh and Clementina Brown have done us all a great service by collaborating to create this bilingual volume.... The Arabic is a reproduction of the poet s own handwritten text of the selected poems, indicating the collaboration of the poet in the project as well.... an excellent introductory volume to the work of this icon of modern Arabic poetry for students and aficionados of Arabic and world poetry. --Clarissa Burt, Journal of Arabic Studies<br /><br />This superbly presented edition ... will well serve to introduce an American readership to one of the finest 20th century poets of the Middle East. --Midwest Book Review<br /><br />This book is good ... and it provides real access to Nizar Qabbani s poetry.... These translations ... provoke fitting testimony to the memory of the poet. --Stephen Watts, Banipal
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  _Contents_
  
  Preface
  
  Judges’ Announcement
  
  Introduction
  
  Editor’s Note
  
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  Abdelaziz Errachidi  
  from the novel Bedouins on the Edge
  
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  Abdelkader Benali  
  from the novel The Trip to the Slaughterhouse
  
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  Abdellah Taia  
  The Wounded Man
  
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  Abderrahim Elkhassar  
  Amazigh
  
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  Abderrazak Boukebba  
  from the novel Skin of Shadow
  
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  Abdullah Thabit  
  from the novel The Twentieth Terrorist
  
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  Adania Shibli  
  At the Post Office
  
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  Ahmad Saadawi  
  from the novel Frankenstein in Baghdad
  
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  Ahmad Yamani  
  eight poems from The Utopia of Cemeteries
  
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  Ala Hlehel  
  Coexistence
  
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  Bassim al Ansar  
  Three Poems
  
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  Dima Wannous  
  Two Stories
  
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  Faïza Guène  
  Mimouna
  
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  Hala Kawtharani  
  Three Stories
  
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  Hamdy el Gazzar  
  from the novel Secret Pleasures
  
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  Hussein al Abri  
  from the novel The Last Hanging Poem
  
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  Hussein Jelaad  
  Three Poems
  
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  Hyam Yared  
  Layla’s Belly
  
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