From Tukhmah to Wamḍah: The Literary Forum at the University of Aleppo, Its Critical Enterprise, and the New Poetics of Minimalism.

This essay presents a synoptic view and a critical synthesis of the activity of the Literary Forum at the University of Aleppo (1980–1986) with the aim of putting Aleppo on the map of modern Arabic literature. Serving as an intensive laboratory for literary and meta-literary production under politic...

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Published in:Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 53; no. 3/4; pp. 313 - 351
Main Author: Behar, Daniel
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Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2022
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