3 CreditsEthical and Civic ResponsibilityGlobal PerspectivesLiteratureOral Communication & Languages
This course engages with Arabic poetry in its socio-political context. How have Arab poets from thepre-Islamic era till the present time used their verse as a tool to affirm the structure of their society, or tostruggle with it? What roles did Arabic poetry play at the Abbasid imperial courts? How does Arabicpoetry participate in the constitution and promulgation or subversion of political ideologies? And whatpresence has it had in Arab peoples' struggles for independence or reform, historically and today as partof the Arab Spring?