#390
Title: Thoughts of the Times: Introduction to Arabic Literature
Author: Arif K. Abukhudairi
Publisher: Fralain Art & Stationers
Year: 1985
Country: Brunei
96 pages
This
is a slender compilation of the author's newspaper columns on Arabic
literature while he was working in South Korea. They are interesting,
and I imagine that he knows what he's talking about, but just asserting
something to be true of a poem, or genre, or the status of women doesn't
support its truthfulness--I wanted more examples and less simply
insisting that he was right. That may be okay for a newspaper column but
it wears thin over even a short collection.
I'd like to find
something more Brunei-centric, so while I'll tick off the country on my
list, I'm still watching for a more representative author.
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