Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-49986-5
M.A.
Middle Eastern Studies
City University of New York
2015
In 2010-11 the world saw the rise of the Arab Spring, a series of uprisings across the Arab world. These uprisings were attempts by the Arab peoples to over throw their governments and bring freedom and change to their societies in order to live in dignity and grace. These populist uprisings produced powerful poetry focusing on the corruption of Arab governments and the rampant economic and social problems faced by the youth of the Arab world. In the following work I have chosen a number of Arabic poems which I translated and analyzed in order to see the relation ship that exists between the rise of the Arab Spring, and the poetry produced by it.
Middle Eastern literature; Middle Eastern Studies; Social structure
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arab spring;Arabic;Poetry