"Habib Al-Sayegh" .. the new series "Flags from the Emirates"

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Within the "Flags from the Emirates" series, the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation has recently released a new book entitled "Habib Al Sayegh... Awareness of Modernity and Obsession with Experimentation", by writer and critic Izzat Omar.

In the first chapter, the book dealt with an aspect of the life of the late Emirati poet Habib Al-Sayegh (1955-2019), which included his upbringing in Abu Dhabi, the stages of his education, and his early brilliance. The journalist, or his daily column in the newspaper «Al-Khaleej», in addition to the testimonies of a number of poets, critics and media professionals.

The second chapter was entitled “The Poem the Book”, in which the author traces the stages of the development of the poetic text according to the issuance of his collections, respectively, since 1980.

Ezzat Omar also dealt with the analysis of his collection “Miyari”, which in turn is one poem, to which he dedicated an entire book in which he revived the Arab woman and femininity through the woman, the universal symbol “Miyari”.

In addition to him, his problematic diwan dealt in form and content, “I call the wrath my son,” which is like a discourse challenging death and the desire to live.

While the third chapter touched on Habib Al-Sayegh's other collections, such as: "Breaking in Weight", "The Old Age Rose", and "A Diagram of the Flocks of Giraffes", and paused at length on his prose and activating poems and how they relate to their time.

Izzat Omar said about his new book, “I relied on a set of references that dealt with Habib Al-Sayegh’s poetic works, which are in any case few in relation to the experience of a pioneering poet who is 40 years old. Perhaps the reason lies in the difficulty of analyzing these works, according to Al-Sayegh’s modern and postmodern trends, represented with surrealism and winged imagination, and thus I hope I have done it its due in illumination, study and analysis.”

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