Contemporary Arab poetry and Arab perception of Arab political reality : selected readings

الملخص EN

The main purpose of this research was to identify major political issues of common concern to selected Arab contemporary poets namely, Salah Abdel Sabor, Nizar Qabbani, Ahmad Najm and Muthafar Al-Nawab.

Based on such issues we were able to construct certain Arab political narrative.

The relevance of that narrative to Arab political reality is then assessed.

Content analysis was used to identify major political issues.

The method of deconstruction and reconstruction was mainly used to follow the political narrative.

Finally, we utilized relevant literature to Arab politics to assess relevance of such narrative to Arab political reality.

In conclusion, we argued that although this is one narrative of Arab politics, its relevance to Arab political reality cannot be denied or dismissed.