#  Sahra Shi'riyya (An Evening of Poetry) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 14, 2014** 

 05:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

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**The CMES Working Group on Middle East Literature in Transition: New Frontiers in the 21st Century** is pleased to present

"Mahmud Qabadu: Poet of the Islamic Nahda in XIXth-century Tunisia"  
**Youssef Ben Ismail**

"Archaeological Poetics: Archiving Ottoman History in Ahmad Shawqi’s Works"  
**Ceyhun Arslan**

"Badr Shakir al-Sayyab: Breaking the Backbone of Poetry"  
**Daniel Behar**

"Ahmad Fuad Nagm: Political Poetry in the Vernacular"  
**Sarah Moawad**

"Humanizing the Other: A Reading in Mahmud Darwish’s Poems"  
**Yousif Hanna**

*Presentations in English with Arabic recitations.*

**Contact:** [Elizabeth Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ Working Group: Middle East Literature ](/eventseries/working-group-middle-east-literature)
- [ Literature ](/research-field/literature)
- [ 2013-14 ](/academic-year/2013-14)
 
 

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