The Nabati Poetry of the United Arab Emirates: Selected Poems, Annotated and Translated Into English [With CD (Audio)]
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Nabati poetry, though composed in an artistic variant of ordinary Bedouin speech, historically descends from the pre-Islamic Classical Arabic poetry of antiquity, and its modern exponents still compose in the traditional genres of boasting, praise, satire, elegy, advice and guidance, love and lyric poetry.

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Nabati poetry, though composed in an artistic variant of ordinary Bedouin speech, historically descends from the pre-Islamic Classical Arabic poetry of antiquity, and its modern exponents still compose in the traditional genres of boasting, praise, satire, elegy, advice and guidance, love and lyric poetry.
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Clive Holes has been Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Oxford since 1997. He has published widely on the Arabic language, both Classical and dialectal, and on Arabic popular literature. In 2009, he and Said Salman Abu Athera published Poetry and Politics in Contemporary Bedouin Society (Ithaca & AUC Press), a study of the modern Nabati tradition of Jordan and Sinai. Professor Holes is a Fellow of the British Academy. Said Salman Abu Athera is an independent researcher into Bedouin poetry, lore, and customs, and an Associate Member of the Sub-Faculty of the Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford. He has published and broadcast extensively in Arabic and acted as a consultant for UNESCO on Bedouin affairs. He is a founder member of the Jordanian National Committee for Cultural Heritage, and established the Centre for the Preservation of Bedouin Culture, a non-profit NGO.