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59 Cards in this Set
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What are Yemen's current affairs?
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Civil war, oil depletion, and water crisis
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Abdel Aziz Maqalih, "Enough"
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Yemen
Relates the terror/violence due to the civil war. |
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Abdullah Al-Baradouni, "From Exile to Exile"
Muhammed al-Gharsi |
Yemen
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What are Saudi Arabia's current affairs?
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Saudi Arabia and Iran are having armed conflict in Northern Yemen due to Saudi Arabia accusing Iran of giving support to rebel Shi'a groups.
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Maya Angelou, "Woman Work"
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Saudi Arabia
Life of an average Saudi Arabian woman doing chores. |
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Yashfeen Ahmad, "War and Peace"
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Saudi Arabia
Describes how people feel about the current battles going on. |
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Other poets:
Nimah Nawwab, "Arabian Nights" |
Saudi Arabia
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Nizar Qubbani, "Bread, Hashish, and Moonlight"
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Syria
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What are Syria's current affairs?
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Drugs, Golden Heights, Transit Country
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What is the United Arab Emirates current affairs?
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Conflicts are occuring between the nationals (locals) and the immigrants because the locals feel crowded out.
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Abdulla Al Hadiya Al Shihi, "They Spoiled the Salt"
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United Arab Emirates
The poem is about the feelings that some nationals have about immigrants, and how (nationals) feel overcrowded. |
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Dr. Shihab Ghanem, "Behind the Iron Curtain"
Mahmud Nur, "Soul is Pure" Arif Umar Khaja, "Travelling |
United Arab Emirates
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Ali Al Saeed, "QuixotiQ"
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Bahrain
It is about two men whose fates are intertwined by a strange/secret events in their lives. |
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Qasim Haddad, "Uzlat al-Malikat"
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Bahrain
A man is stabbed by an assassin, but before he dies, he pleads the assassin to not reveal his secret. |
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Translated by Bassam Frangieh, "The Horses"
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Bahrain
In the poem, horses are husbands/soldiers and women are there only to be used for sexual purposes. |
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What are Bahrain's current affairs?
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A large problem is sex trafficking and rape.
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What are Jordan's current affairs?
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They are impacted by the Pakistan-Israeli conflict and the Iraq War. Also they deal with refugees who come into the country because of the war. Jordan is an ally that works with US on the war on terror.
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Ibrhim Nasrallah, "Bewildered"
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Jordan
About how the Pakistan-Israeli conflict (cause they are heavily affected by it) and how everybody needs a home, and each group is fighting over what they claim to be their "home". |
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Ghassan Zaqtan, "Four Sisters From Zakaria"
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Jordan
About sisters being forced to leave their Pakistanian village because of the conflict over Israel. |
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What are Kuwait's current issues?
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-Women's rights movement
-Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and its results. |
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Ahmad Meshari Al-Adwani, (National Anthem of Kuwait) "Al-Nasheed Al-Watani.
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Kuwait
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Saadia Mufarreh, "He was The Last of Dreamers", "Book of Sins", "Mere A Mirror Lying Back"
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Kuwait
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Laila Mohammed Saleh, "Women Writers in Kuwait", "Woman Writers of the Islands and Arabian Gulf", "Eyes Injury", "Meeting in Flower Season"
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Kuwait
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Samah Kalakh, "Clouds of War" is about?
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Kuwait
A young girl who lost her father when Iraqis invaded Kuwait, and adresses the issue of how the war claimed countless lives. |
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What are some of Bahrain's current issues?
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Discrimination against the Shiite majority, repression of freedom of speech and peaceful assembly, and human trafficking.
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Qassim Haddad, "I Do Not Bow" is about?
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Bahrain
How the people of his country never bow in the face of problems like, limited resources and religious disputes. |
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What are major affairs in Turkey?
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The Turkey-Kurdistan Workers' Party Conflict
(Between the Republic of Turkey and the Kurdish Guerilla Group) |
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Asik Veysel's poems were collected (by Umit Yasar Oguzcan) and published, "Let the Friends Remember Me"
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Turkey
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Orhan Pamuk, "My Name Is Red and Snow"
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Turkey
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What is the "Divan of the Lover" about?
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Turkey
It is about the belief in God, but talks about how God is not proven to exist. This is influenced by the secular constitution. |
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Sultan Mohammed II, "Gazel" is about?
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Turkey
How the author talks about fighting for Allah, as the author also hopes that the God will help him when he fights. This poem acts like a prayer to God. |
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What are Iran's current issues?
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Pressure from the Unites States for Iran to stop its nuclear research, and the fight over oil.
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Ahish Thakur, "A Letter to the War Kids" is about?
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Iran
How the author feels sympathy for children stuck in between the war. |
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Tarssa Yazdani, "Blood and Oil" is about?
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Iran
It is about the oild crisis within Iran and about the conflicts resulting in violence over it. |
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What are Lebanon's current issues?
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They have a large amount of political assasination, and conflicts.
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"King of Terror" is about?
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Lebanon
It is adressing the war and how it has more control than the government. |
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Gates of Hell is about?
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Lebanon
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What are Qatar's current problems?
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The hot climate, and low amounts of precipitation.
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Deena Abdullah, "Freedom that I Don't Desire" is about?
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Qatari
The freedom that Qatari people have gotten, and how they are still getting used to it. |
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Jamal Fayez, "Dancing on the End of Suffering", "The Wrecks of Far Distances"
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Qatar
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Adham Smart, "Pumpkin Heart Boy", "Banged Up"
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Qatar
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What are some of Iraq's current issues?
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Water supply shortages, and the religious conflicts between Shia and Sunni
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Ahmad Reza Ahmadi , "Among Odes" is about?
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Iraq
The life of Iraqi people during the war and how they are affected. |
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Abdulkareem Kasid, "That Death" is about
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Iraq
The feeling of fear that people feel during war. |
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Fadhil al-Azzawi, "In my Spare Time"
Salah 'Abd al-Sabur, "The Sun and the Woman" |
Iraq
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What are Israel's current affairs?
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The conflicts in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, but for now there is a period of relative peace. But there is still tension rising from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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Tad Campbell, "Israel" is about?
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Israel
Describes the current peace and beauty of Israel and the significance of the land. |
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Elisha Porat, "Stone Snowy Mounds" is about?
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Israel
The poem is about the burial of the dead from the last conflict during a time of peace. |
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Elisha Porat, "The Messiah of Laguardia"
Ruth Almog, "The Red Crane Literature Series" Amos Oz, "In the Land of Israel" Abraham B. Yehoshua, "Mr. Mani" |
Israel
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"Identity Card" (Mahmoud Darwish) is about...
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Palestinian
The author is mad that the Jewish people want to take his land back. He talks about his life and how he had earned everything where he lives. |
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"We Will Return" 1951 {Abdelkarim Al-Karmi (Abu Salma)} is about...
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Palestinian
Talks about how if the Palestinian people are kicked out of "their" country, they would return. |
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"My Homeland" (Ibrahim Tukan) is about...
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Palestinian
The author talks about how where he lives is his homeland, and to be pulled away from it would be unfair. |
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"I Will Tell You A Story" 1961 (Kamal Nassir) is about...
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Palestinian
Talks about how the people suffered throughout many years, but they stood strong to continue on. |
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"The Martyr" 1937 (Abdelrahim Mahmud) is about
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Palestinian
Talks about how the author wants to keep his rights and achieve his dreams while living life to the fullest. |
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"I want to Die in My Own Bed" (Yehuda Amichai) is about...
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Jewish
The author talks about how he wishes to die in his own bed, which means to be in his homeland. |
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"Cyclamens and Swords" 12-2006 (Helen Bar-Lev) is about...
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Jewish
The author talks about how when things should be peaceful, there is always violence. |
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"The Prelude" 2006 (Michael Druck) is about...
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Jewish
Talks about how the Jewish people listen to god, not other people's opinions. And that the Jewish people deserve the land they "own". |
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"My Heart Is in the East" (Yehuda Halevi) is about...
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Jewish
The author says that the place he belongs is in one area (Israel), yet he is in a totally different area in "Arab" chains. |
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"Zion-thou art anxious for news of thy captives" (Yehuda Halevi) is about...
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Jewish
The person talking is giving news to God about his people that have become captives. The author and the captives desire peace and dream of the day when they can go back to their homeland. |
