mamdūh adwān (1941-2004) is a contemporary syrian poet who has vastly used traditions in his poems and has tried to express his ideas and stances toward arab world's current problems in a symbolic way and through traditional characters. mamdūh adwān is known as a poet committed to his country and people, and so, he considers expression of problems and provision of solutions as the highest ...

This article draws attention to the ways in which Anita Amirrezvani’s The Blood of Flowers (2007), a historical novel set in 17th-century Iran, can be placed within the neo-orientalist discourse which informs many of the post-9/11 memoirs and novels set in contemporary Iran by women of the Iranian diaspora in the United States. Besides being a novel on Islam and Islamic rule—which makes it much...

today, it is clear that literature is an event that becomes apparent within the context of language; since it is language that gives form and identity to it. in fact language is a system of phonetic, grammatical, and lexical to express thoughts and feelings. with the coming of formalism then structuralism, critics became of the conviction that a literary work should be studied without any backg...

ahmad shoghi known as amir al-shoara, is one of the most famous contemporary poets of arabic literature. his poetry never served himself or his personal life but was all the time for the sake of others. he never ignored the poetic motives; on the contrary, he studied them very deeply, although he was not a poet with a worldwide reputation, shoghi was one of the famous poets of east and one of t...

this question may be raised in the mind of reader of this article that what motivation causes treating the feature of parnassism , in the ode of pre-islamic arab poet living hundreds of years before the rise of this school. did imru' al-qais’ belong to the time beyond his contemporary period or the problem is something else? in fact although parnassism is a new name for a special literary schoo...

resistance poetry is one of the cornerstones of contemporary arabic literature and is one of the vastest realms of poetry poets have concerned themselves with. the poet of resistance does not have any choice but to write his own destiny and invite others to freedom and independence and be devoted to the interests of his society. a careful look at the contemporary poetry of tunisia reveals that ...

Iranian home is used as private, semi-private and public spaces. It has kept its traditional functions despite alterations in its structure and is a space for women to engage in caretaking and housekeeping activities. In this paper, I will discuss how modern architecture and its consequences such as the deletion of women-only spaces called Andarooni, has not acknowledged women’s appropriation o...