1st Edition
Yemeni Poetry on the Frontline Love and Conflict
Yemeni Poetry on the Frontline investigates popular literary responses to conflict in the different regions of Yemen, comparing responses to, and expressions of, traditional conflict with those to the new externally fuelled conflict.
In its engagement with diasporic Yemeni communities in the UK, the book explores how storytelling and poetry might heighten and enhance both political and public awareness of the situation in Yemen, and lead to wider cultural understanding of diasporic and refugee communities in the UK. The novelty lies in the focus on literary expressions of conflict and conflict resolution, and the bringing together of projects dealing with the diverse regions of Yemen.
This book will primarily appeal to scholars in Yemeni poetry, Arabic literature, Arabic dialectology, and anthropological linguistics.
Transliteration System
Chapter 1 – Introduction to Yemeni Poetry
James Dickins, Sam Liebhaber, Janet C.E. Watson & Mohammed Shormani
Chapter 2 – Poems from Ibb and Hadramawt
Mohammed Shormani with Janet C.E. Watson & James Dickins
Chapter 3 – When you love your enemy: poetic duels about Mariam al-Mansouri
Fatima Al Zawiya & Catherine Miller
Chapter 4 - The Legacy of Muḥammad Maḥmūd al-Zubayrī: Yemeni Activism in Poetry
Amina Atiq & Sam Liebhaber
Chapter 5 – The Yemeni diaspora in the UK
Deryn Rees-Jones & Taher Qassim
Chapter 6 – Poems from the Yemeni diaspora
Taher Qassim with Janet C.E. Watson & James Dickins
Biography
Roberta Morano, University of Leeds, UK.
Janet C.E. Watson, Professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat.
James Dickins, Professorat Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat.
