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From: Rochelle Davis
Date: October 13, 2010 10:40:11 PM EDT
To: Nehad Khader
Cc: Dan Walsh
Subject: Re: I struggled with this and I know it way off....D PS: will you be sending those reports soon?
The rest of the poem is in this article, I think.
I didn't open it up, but you should be able to find it here ...
I think it is the poem that has the "is the tree unlawful for its nightingales..."
The Lost Garden of al-Andalus: Islamic Spain and the Poetic ...
by Y Noorani - 1999 - Cited by 5 - Related articles
before, in 1919, the Egyptian Arabic poet Ahmad Shawqi (1868-1932) ended his five-year exile in Spain with a ..... Is the tree unlawful for its nightingales ...
www.jstor.org/stable/176294 - Similar
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Nehad Khader wrote:
Hi Rochelle,
So Dan sent this poster, and the text is a little intense. I know that Ahmad Shawqi wrote the poem at the bottom but I cannot figure out what it means. Perhaps you can help us? Dan tried to translate it under translation, but that doesn't seem right.
http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/it-is-forbidden-for-him-to-...
Thanks! Nehad.
2010/9/23 Dan Walsh
http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/it-is-forbidden-for-him-to-...
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Rochelle Davis
Assistant Professor, Culture and Society
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Georgetown University
http://ccas.georgetown.edu