Arabic Prose Poetry in 1930s Egypt

Arabic prose poetry (al-shi'r al-manthur) is a controversial yet to date understudied literary genre.In this book, Nevine Fayek traces the origins of the genre by focusing on the works of 1930s Egyptian poets and the periodicals in which they published. She puts their work into the historical context of the development of Egyptian modernism and the Arab Nahda, using the private archives of poets s...