{"product_id":"9780953382460","title":"Iraqi Poetry Today","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor two decades, since the Iraq-Iran war in 1980, Iraq has been the focus of numerous political, economic, sociological, military, and geopolitical studies. However, very little has been published on the Iraqi literary tradition. Modern Iraq has produced a highly complex literature of survival in response to various realities of oppression and to challenges of modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslators include Naomi Shibab Nye, Ellen Dore Watson, Daniel Weissbort, and Ferial Ghazoul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eDr. Saadi Simawe\u003c\/i\u003e guest-edited the pioneering Palestine\/Israel issue of \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation (No. 14)\u003c\/i\u003e , and three years ago guest-edited a special issue of \u003ci\u003eArab Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e on modern Iraqi literature. He is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and American Studies, Grinnell University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zephyr Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034677199088,"sku":"9780953382460","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780953382460_p0.jpg?v=1763866904","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780953382460","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}