GROUP 2

Artists of western Asia are heirs

to the first civilizations known to
man, and their landscape is rich with
examples of art, from the first
human-form statues to Islamic and
modern art.
 Several artists’ groups formed
between the 1930s and ’60s adopted
European artistic modes of expression
to produce works inspired by their
heritage and by a rapidly disappearing
landscape victim to urban migration
and industrialization.
 In the last thirty years of the
century, artists continued to borrow
from their past but became more
concerned with their immediate reality,
drawing on ancient symbolism and
mythology to portray contemporary
political and social concerns.
West Asian Literature
Nazim Hikmet
- 1902 – 1963
- “romantic communist”
- Themes: Everyday people of Turkey
- WORKS: * Optimistic Man
* Hymn to Life
* A Sad State of Freedom
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
- 1901 – 1962
- Most influential modern Writer
- WORKS: * Sahnenin Disindakiler - Novel
* Abdullah Efendi’nin - Story
* Siirler - Poem
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
- 1965 – present
- Themes: Love and Dispossessed
- WORKS: * Wolves of the Crescent moon
* Munira’s Bottle
Abdo Khal
- 1962 – present
- Themes: Sheer violence
- WORKS: * Dialogue at the gates of the
earth
* There’s nothing to be happy
about
* Cities eating the Grass
David Grossman
- 1964 - present
- He addresses the Israeli – Palestinian
conflict in his 2008 novel “To the End of the Land”
- WORKS: * The Angel of the Night - Poem
* Sea under love - Novel
Abraham B. Yehoshua
- 1936 - present
- “Israeli Faulkher
- WORKS: * The Journey of the end of
millennium - Novel
* Continuing silence of poet – Poem
Betool Khedairi
- 1965- present
- WORKS: * A Sky so Close
* Shayeb
Najem Wali
- 1956 - 1980
- WORKS: * Jussifs Gesichter
* Journey to Tel Al-lahm
* Journey to the heart of the enemy
Fadia Faqir
- 1956 – present
- Themes: Issues of gender identity and culture
- WORKS: * Nissanit
* Pillars of Salt
* My Name is Salma
Leila Abouela
- 1964 – present
- WORKS: * Elsewhere Home – Short Story
* The Kindness of Enemies - Novel
Mohhamad Abdul
- 1940 – present
- WORKS: * Sana’a
* Our Land Salma
Zaid Mutee Dammaj
- 1940 – present
- WORKS: * Al-Aprab ( The Scorpion)
* Al-Rahinah ( The Hostage)
Mirza Fatali Akhundov
- 1812 - 1878
- WORKS: * The Oriental Poem
* The Decieved Stars
* Six Comedies
Kasim bey Zakir
- 1784-1857
- One of the most prominent Azeri poets
- One of the founders of critical realism and
the satirical trend in Azeri literature
- WORKS: * Durnalar
Nizar Qabbani
- 1923 – 1998
- Themes: Love, Religion, Erotism & Feminism
- WORKS: * Childhood of Breat
* The Hasteners
Hanna Mina
- 1924 – 2018
- Themes: Social Realism & Nationalism
- WORKS: * The Blue Lanterns
* The Swamp
Amin Maalouf
- writes in French
- WORKS: * The Rock of Tanios
* Prix Goncourt
Khalil Gibran
- His genre; Poetry, parable & short story
- WORKS: * The Prophet
* Broken wings
Yasser Saeed Hareb
- 1978 – present
- His genre; Poetry, parable & short story
- WORKS: *Take off your shoes
*Men of fire others of light
Jeffery Deaver
- 1950 – present
- His genre; Poetry, parable & short story
- WORKS: *Born Bad
*The kneeling soldier
*Triangle
Simin Dāneshvar
- 1921- 2012
- first major Iranian woman novelist
- WORKS: * Savushun
* Sutra and other stories
* Wandering Island
Sadegh Hedayat
- he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary
modernism in their career
- WORKS: * The Blind Owl
* The Stray Dog
* Three drops of blood
Am on my knees Father
Bearing in mind that you never sleep
Crying for those trapped in a foreign country
Dark days have befallen them
Equality rules broken, screwed humanity
Frequent hunger, little or no pay and slaving labor
Golden days are over for them
Having greener pastures and better opportunities
Is a dream that burnt on their arrival
Just want to go back home, even in poverty
Keeping their fingers crossed, for safe arrival
Looking forward to getting out of captivity,
passports in hands
Making every effort because there is no place like
home.
Author: Njeri Hunjeri
Theme: Hope for an
escape in slavery.
Tone: Helpless and
Hoping
Mood: Pitiful,
Sympathetic
Literary Techniques:
Sound Techniques
Alliteration:
Dark days have befallen them
Literary Techniques:
Sound Techniques
Consonance:
Crying for those trapped in a
foreign country
Literary Techniques:
Sound Techniques
Assonance:
Frequent hunger, little or no pay
and slaving labour
Literary Techniques:
Imagery
Visual Imagery:
-Dark days have befallen them
Author: Samira Azzam
Characters:
Su’ad Wabi – nurse
Soldier – a part of Arab
Legion
*Both are STATIC characters
Settings:
Hospitalin
Saudi Arabia
Theme:
Love , War &
Sacrifice
Conflict:
Man vs. Environment
/ Society
Plot:
Exposition :
The soldier met the nurse
in the hospital he is
guarding.
Plot:
Rising Action :
The soldier knew that the coat he
received from someone is from the
nurse. He started to fall in lovewith
her.
Plot:
Climax :
During a war, the nurse go to the
place where all people are suffering.
She brought food and was then
shooted and eventually die.
Plot:
Falling Action :
The bread or food was then
spread to all but the soldier did not
want to eat it for he thinks that it
caused the death of his loved one.
Plot:
Resolution :
The soldier still ate the food for
someone explained to him that Su’ad
would sacrifice even herself just to
help others.
 It was entitled Bread of
Sacrifice because the nurse
would even sacrifice herself
just to ease the hunger of
everyone.