1st Edition

Yemeni Poetry on the Frontline Love and Conflict

132 Pages

by Routledge

132 Pages

by Routledge

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Yemeni Poetry on the Frontline investigates popular literary responses to conflict in the different regions of Yemen, comparing responses to, and expressions of, traditional conflict with those to the new externally fuelled conflict. In its engagement with diasporic Yemeni communities in the UK, the book explores how storytelling and poetry might heighten and enhance both political and public... Read more

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Chapter 1 – Introduction to Yemeni Poetry

James Dickins, Sam Liebhaber, Janet C.E. Watson & Mohammed Shormani

Chapter 2 – Poems from Ibb and Hadramawt

Mohammed Shormani with Janet C.E. Watson & James Dickins

Chapter 3 – When you love your enemy: poetic duels about Mariam al-Mansouri

Fatima Al Zawiya & Catherine Miller

Chapter 4 - The Legacy of Muḥammad Maḥmūd al-Zubayrī: Yemeni Activism in Poetry

Amina Atiq & Sam Liebhaber

Chapter 5 – The Yemeni diaspora in the UK

Deryn Rees-Jones & Taher Qassim

Chapter 6 – Poems from the Yemeni diaspora