In Modern Arabic Poetry, Waed Athamneh addresses enduring questions raised from the 1950s to the present as she investigates the impact of past and contemporary Middle Eastern politics on its poetry.Focusing on the works of three prominent poets, Iraqi Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati (1926-1999), Egyptian Ahmad Abd al-Muti Hijazi (b. 1935), and Palestinian Mahmud Darwish (1941-2008), Athamneh argues that political changes in the modern Arab world--including the 1967 war and the fall of Nasserism, the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and, in Hijazi's case, the 2011 Arab Uprising and its...