Nabati

Hilal's 15-verse poem was in a form known as Nabati, native to nomadic tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.

Home | Mail Online 2010

Hilal's 15-verse poem was in a form known as Nabati, native to nomadic tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.

Home | Mail Online 2010

Ali Saif Al Shaali, CEO of the festival, said special focus will be given to Arabic 'Nabati' poetry, one of the traditional literary forms still prevalent in Gulf states.

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But the most incredible success to date is a version of X Factor in poetry, not even in Arabic but Nabati, the language of the bedouins.

Letters to MediaGuardian 2011

Hissa's Nabati poetry, a genre particularly beloved to the Arab Gulf world, exposes witless, misogynistic and unIslamic fatwas in their true light: as crude tools for mass oppression exercised by an increasingly calcified theocratic autocracy on the irreversible threshold of rigor mortis.

Qanta Ahmed, MD: Poetic Justice in a Pint Sized Pistol: Hissa Hillal, Live! from The Land of Invisible Women 2010

Hissa's Nabati poetry, a genre particularly beloved to the Arab Gulf world, exposes witless, misogynistic and unIslamic fatwas in their true light: as crude tools for mass oppression exercised by an increasingly calcified theocratic autocracy on the irreversible threshold of rigor mortis.

Poetic Justice in a Pint Sized Pistol: Hissa Hillal, Live! from The Land of Invisible Women 2010

There was also Salah Al-Mansouri, a poet who challenged the bounds of traditional expression in front of this mass audience, using for example “a lengthy string of boasts that would be unremarkable in hip-hop but breaks Nabati convention by claiming his talent is his own rather than an attribute of his clan.”

Millions’ Poet, Women’s Rights « Gender Across Borders 2009

This time around, the contest was won by Ziyad Hijab bin Naheet who creates Nabati poetry, a rhymed narrative form that comes from Bedouin culture.

Millions’ Poet, Women’s Rights « Gender Across Borders 2009

Also composes Nabati poems, a style unique to the Arabian peninsula.

King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz King/Saudi... 2006

Abu Bakr Ahmed or Mohammed ibn Ali ibn al-Wahshiya al-Kaldani or al-Nabati.

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