{"product_id":"arabic-poems","title":"Arabic Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. As a unifying principle, editor Marlé Hammond has selected eighty poems reflecting desire and longing of various kinds: for the beloved, for the divine, for the homeland, and for change and renewal. Poets include the legendary pre-Islamic warrior 'Antara Ibn Shaddad, medieval Andalusian poet Ibn Zaydun, the wandering poet Al-A’sha, and the influential Egyptian Romantic Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi. Here too are literary giants of the past century: Khalil Jibran, author of the bestselling \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Prophet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; popular Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani; Palestinian feminist Fadwa Tuqan; Mahmoud Darwish, bard of occupation and exile; acclaimed iconoclast Adonis, and more. In their evocations of heroism, nostalgia, mysticism, grief, and passion, the poems gathered here transcend the limitations of time and place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Everyman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55512928977281,"sku":"9781841597980","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0244\/8444\/6286\/files\/arabicpoems.png?v=1779891264","url":"https:\/\/shop.bl.uk\/products\/arabic-poems","provider":"British Library Online Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}