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The Al-Hamlet Summit: A Political Arabesque

The Al-Hamlet Summit: A Political Arabesque

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ISBN10: 190280662X
ISBN13: 9781902806624
Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press
Published: Apr 1 2007
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
Powerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, Westernized dictator who juggles petro-dollars, arms dealers, and democratic slogans in an attempt to quell the rising tides of Islamic extremism. Presenting a composite of many Arab concerns that affect peoples from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic and beyond, it is a concrete and poetic formulation of an Arab viewpoint, combining aspects of the Arab oral-poetry tradition with the rhetoric of modern-day politics. It is Hamlet as pure, dangerous politics.

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