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Routledge
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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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.
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.;
Biography
Ghazi A. Algosaibi