Arabian Essays

by Algosaibi

Overview

First Published in 1982. This collection of informal essays is described by the author as talks they have given to people who know the, best as a poet, minor academic, and major bureaucrat. These talks were to Saudi Arabian audiences and speak from an Arab point of view – whether about poetry, education, or the social problems of a rapidly developing environment. The author aims to bestow adventurous thinking onto the reader, claiming this to be of a greater value than similar titles which instead encourage cerebral quietness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780710300195
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/04/1982
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 On poetry and poets; Chapter 2 A view of education; Chapter 3 Arabs and Western civilization; Chapter 4 So what do you think will happen?; Chapter 5 On bribeocracy; Chapter 6 King Faisal's foreign policy; Chapter 7 The philosophy of university education; Chapter 8 Open letter to Dr Henry Kissinger Written in 1973.; Chapter 9 Dialogue about myself; Chapter 10 A short and quite imaginary story about a bureaucrat; Chapter 11 By the way …; Chapter 12 The new map of the world; Chapter 13 Is there a place for poetry in the Arabs’ twentieth century?; Chapter 14 The minister and the administrative challenge; Chapter 15 The crisis of modern Arabic poetry; Chapter 16 The new Arab world An address to an American business group in Los Angeles, 1979.;