Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon: New Readings of Shi'r Al-'?Mmiyya

by Noha Radwan

Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230341322
• ISBN13: 9780230341326
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"