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The Poetry of Ayman Agbaria
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7 minutes
Released:
Apr 3, 2019
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Born in Umm Al-Fahm, Ayman Agbaria is a researcher, poet, playwright, social activist, and a senior lecturer in the department of leadership and policy in education at the University of Haifa. Several of Agbaria's poems, written in Arabic, have been translated into Hebrew, and have been well received. Among the themes found in his poetry are the extreme alienation from the self that of living as a religious and linguistic minority in Israel can produce. Text: Ayman Agbaria, various poems at Poetry International Rotterdam
Released:
Apr 3, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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