| ID | 106241 |
| Title Proper | Palestine in Egyptian colloquial poetry |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Radwan, Noha |
| Publication | 2011. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Shi'r al-'ammiyya is a poetry movement whose emergence in Egypt in the early 1950s coincided with the heyday of Nasser's revolution, when the Palestine question was a national concern. With numerous practitioners today, the movement has yielded a large corpus of colloquial poetry that has become a significant part of Egypt's cultural landscape.This article presents a historical survey of shi'r al-'ammiyya's best known poets-Fu'ad Haddad, Salah Jahin, and 'Abd al-Rahman al-Abnudi-and their poems on Palestine. Among the essay's aims is to dispel the common misconception that the use of colloquial Egyptian ('ammiyya) denotes parochial rather than pan-Arab concerns, with the standard (fusha) Arabic seen as a signifier of pan-Arab identity. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 40, No. 4; Sum 2011: p61-77 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 40, No. 4; Sum 2011: p61-77 |
| Key Words | Palestine ; Egypt ; Colloquial Poetry ; Poetry |