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Artscape - Poets of Protest - Al Khadra: Poet of the Desert
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Al Khadra is a renowned Sahrawi war poetess living in the al-Auin camp in the Algerian desert. A vivid testament to 30 years of the Sahara conflict...
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Artscape - Poets of Protest - Mazen Maarouf: Hand Made
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Palestinian Mazen Maarouf was raised in Lebanon, and recently forced into a double exile in Iceland after criticising the Syrian regime. We follow ...
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Artscape - Poets of Protest - Manal Al Sheikh: Fire Won't Eat Me Up
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Poet, editor and activist Manal Al Sheikh says it is now lethal for her to be a writer in her home town of Nineveh, Iraq. We follow her as she prep...
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Artscape - Poets of Protest - Yehia Jaber: Laughter is My Exit
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Arabic poets are responding to the changing Middle East. One such poet is Yehia Jaber, who fought with the communists during Lebanon's long civil w...
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Artscape - Poets of Protest - Hala Mohammad: Waiting for Spring
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Renowned and outspoken Syrian poet Hala Mohammad explains how she thinks poetry is central to the political change under way in the Middle East.
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Artscape - Poets of Protest - Ahmed Fouad Negm: Writing a Revolution
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Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm is outspoken, irreverent and controversial - a living legend in the Arab world famous for not holding his tongue. In...
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