The Al-Hamlet Summit: A Political Arabesque

By Sulayman Al-Bassam

Book Overview

Powerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, Westernized dictator who juggles petro-dollars, arms dealers, and democratic slogans in an attempt to quell the rising tides of Islamic extremism. Presenting a composite of many Arab concerns that affect peoples from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic and beyond, it is a concrete and poetic formulation of an Arab viewpoint, combining aspects of the Arab oral-poetry tradition with the rhetoric of modern-day politics. It is Hamlet as pure, dangerous politics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190280662X
• ISBN13: 9781902806624
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"