Qassim Haddad | |
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قاسم حداد | |
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| Born | 1948 (age 75) |
| Occupation | poet [2] |
| Years active | 1970–present |
Qassim Haddad (born 1948) is a Bahraini poet, particularly notable within the Arab world for his free verse poetry. [3] His poems have been translated in several languages including German, English and French. [4]
Qassim Haddad was born in Bahrain in 1948 and did not complete his secondary education, having educated himself over the years. [4] Haddad first rose to prominence with his poetry that contained revolutionary and political themes such as freedom. He published his first poetic collection titled Good Omen in 1970 and has since published more than 16 books, including Majnun Laila, a book of poetry and paintings, and a book of poetry in collaboration with Saudi photographer Saleh al-Azzaz. [4] In 2007, Haddad created controversy when he reworked the Arabic classic Layla and Majnun , with Marcel Khalife which fundamentalists believed undermined Islamic morals. [5]
He worked in the public library from 1968 to 1975, but was in and out of political incarceration for five years’ total between 1973 and 1980. [6] In 1980, he joined the Culture and Arts Department at the Ministry of Information. His column, "وقت للكتابة" (“Time to Write”), has been syndicated weekly in a number of Arab publications since the early 1980s as well. His poems have been extensively translated, and he retired from the Ministry at the end of 1997. [7]
Haddad is also the co-founder and chairman of the Bahraini Writers' Union. [4]
He is married and has three children, including his son the noted composer Mohammed Haddad (born 1975) and his daughters Mehyar and noted photographer Tufool. He has three granddaughters (Amina, Ramz, and Lamar). [8]
Among the most prominent translations of Haddad's work are the collection علاج المسافة (“Distance Therapy”), rendered as Rimedio per la distanza in a translation to Italian by Fawzi Al Delmi by San Marco dei Giustiniani in Genoa, Italy. [9] The American University in Cairo also launched a translation project spearheaded by John Verlenden (Professor of Rhetoric and Authorship) and Ferial Ghazoul (Professor of English Language and Comparative Literature, funding it through a $100,000 grant from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities. [10]
Haddad's website جهة الشعر (“Jehat”) was launched in 1996 and posted Modern Standard Arabic poetry in its original form and translated into seven languages. In March 2018, however, new additions to the site were suspended due to lack of funds. [11]
Haddad was awarded the “Arab Creativity Award” from the Lebanese Cultural Forum in Paris in 2000 and won the Al Owais Award in the poetry category in the 2000-2001 cycle. [12] In 2017, he won the Aboul-Qacem Echebbi Award on its 2017 return to Tunisia after a hiatus since the Tunisian Revolution of 2011, [13] along with the third Poet Mohammed Al-Thubaiti Prize in Saudi Arabia. [14] In 2020, he was regaled at the Fifth Cairo International Forum for Arab Poetry.
Between 2008 and 2015, Haddad received four scholarships for literary residencies in Germany. [15] He completed the book طرفة بن الوردة (“The Rose of Tarafa”) during a 2008-2011 residency at the German Commission for Cultural Exchange in Berlin, followed by a 2012 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fellowship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, a 2013 grant from the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Cologne, and a 2014 PEN Centre Germany in Munich. These allowed him to complete the following freelance projects, besides the aforementioned طرفة بن الوردة:
Three phases can be distinguished in Haddad's poetic career. The first consists of his first three collections: البشارة (“Portents,” 1970), خروج رأس الحسين من المدن الخائنة (“The Exodus of Ras Al-Husayn from the Treacherous Cities,” 1972), and الدم الثاني (“The Second Blood,” 1975). In these three collections, his rhetoric and lyricism rejects the status quo and calls for revolution. The allusions are often to mythic figures such as Sisyphus, Scheherezade, Penelope, and Antarah ibn Shaddad, as well as to modern colonial resistance symbols such as Che Guevara, Vietnam, and Palestine. [20]
The second phase includes the collections قلب الحب (“Love’s Heart”) and القيامة (“Judgment Day”), both published in 1980. These more experimentally introspective works transform the subjective ego into an objective collective one and include richer, more transcendent language. Many collections through 1991 continued to build on this theme.
The third stage builds on his interest in aesthetics, including linguistic experimentation and the use of sound, symbols, and metaphor. His 1983 collection شظايا (“Splinters”) is a long poem applying shock and tension to the lyric approach of the era.
His fourth stage centers on collaborations with artists in other media. These works include الجواشن (“Armour”), a long-form work co-written by novelist Amin Saleh; the aforementioned أخبارمجنون ليلى (“Majnun Laila,” painted by Iraqi artist Dia Azzawi and set to music by Marcel Khalife); جوه مع (“Faces”) with Bahraini painter Ebrahim Busaad, singer-songwriter Khaled El Sheikh, the poet Adunis, and the playwright Abdullah Youssef. المستحيل الأزرق (“The Blue Impossible”) with photographer Saleh al-Azzaz is a recent highlight, as are طرفة بن الوردة and أيها الفحم يا سيدي, both among his residency works and featuring the work of his photographer daughter Tufool and his composer son Mohammed. [21]
| Title | Publication year | Location: Publisher | Number of pages | Cover artist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| البشارة (“Portents”) | 1970 (1st ed.), 1984 (2nd. ed.) | Manama/Beirut: al-Sharikah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Wikālāt wa-al-Tawzīʻ (1st), Kuwait City: Dar al-Rabian (2nd) | 199 (1st ed.), 198 (2nd ed.) | Abdullah al-Muharraqi (1st ed.), none (2nd ed.) |
| خروج رأس الحسين من المدن الخائنة (“The Exodus of Ras Al-Husayn from the Treacherous Cities”) | 1972 | Beirut: Dar al-Awda | 91 | Abdullah Youssef |
| الدم الثاني (“The Second Blood”) | 1975 | Manama: Dar al-Ghad | 112 | Abdullah Youssef |
| قلب الحب (“Love’s Heart”) | 1980 | Beirut: Dar Ibn Khaldun | 100 | Abdullah Youssef |
| القيامة (“Judgment Day”) | 1980 | Beirut: Dar al-Kalima/Dar Ibn Rushd | 114 | Joan Miró |
| شظايا (“Splinters”) | 1981 | Beirut: Dar al-Farabi | 175 | Salvador Dalí |
| المسرح البحريني التجربة والافق (“The Past and Future of Bahraini Theatre”) | 1981 (1st ed.), 2018 (2nd ed.) | Manama: Ministry of Information/Information Affairs Authority (1st and 2nd eds.) | 140 | Abdullah Youssef |
| انتماءات (“Inclinations”) | 1982 | Beirut: Dar al-Farabi | 128 | |
| موضوعات حول العامية والشعر العامي (“Essays on Nabati Poetry,” with Abdul Rahman Rafi and Abdulqader Aqeel) | 1983 | Manama: Special Editions | 48 | |
| النهروان (“Nahrawan,” illustrated by Jamal Hashem) | 1988 (1st ed.), 1997 (2nd ed.) | Al Hidd, Bahrain: Oriental Press (1st ed.), Cairo: Arab Press Agency (2nd ed.) | 104 (1st ed.), 109 (2nd ed.) | Jamal Hashem |
| الجواشن (“Al-Jawashen,” with novelist Amin Saleh) | 1989 (1st ed.), 1998 (2nd ed.) | Casablanca: Toubkal Publishing (1st ed.), Baghdad: Dar al-Mada Publishing (2nd ed.) | 177 (1st ed.), 227 (2nd ed.) | Rachid Koraïchi (1st ed.), Abdullah Youssef (2nd ed.) |
| يمشي مخفورا بالوعول (“Escorted with the Mountain Goats”) | 1990 | London: Riyāḍ Najīb Al-Rayyis | 108 | |
| عزلة الملكات (“The Isolation of Queens”) | 1991 (1st ed.), 1992 (2nd ed.) | Manama: Bahrain Writers Association Kalimat Notebooks (1st ed.), Cairo: Dar al-Ghad (illustrated by Omar Jihan) (2nd ed.) | 102 (1st ed.), 79 (2nd ed.) | Khalid al-Hashimi (1st ed.), none (2nd ed.) |
| البيانات (“Statements,” with Adunis, Amin Saleh, and Mohammed Bennis) | 1993 (1st ed.), 1995 (2nd ed.) | Manama: Bahrain Writers Association Kalimat Notebooks (1st ed.), Tunis: Dār Sirās (2nd ed.) | 106 (1st ed.), 135 (2nd ed.) | Khalid al-Hashimi (1st ed.), Dār Sirās staff (2nd ed.) |
| نقد الأمل (“Criticism of Hope”) | 1995 (1st ed.), 1998 (2nd ed.) | Beirut: Dār al-Kunūz al-Adabīyah (1st and 2nd eds.) | 147 (1st ed.), 208 (2nd ed.) | Talib al-Daoud (1st ed.), Abdullah Youssef (2nd ed.) |
| أخبار مجنون ليلى (“Majnun Laila,” illustrated by Dia Azzawi) | 1996 | London: Arabesque | 92 | Dia Azzawi |
| قبر قاسم يسبقه فهرس المكابدات، تليه جنة الأخطاء (“Qasim’s Tomb”) | 1997 (1st ed.), 2017 (2nd ed.) | Manama: Dar al-Kalima (1st ed.), Amman: Dar al-Ahlia (2nd ed.) | 279 (1st ed.), 367 (2nd ed.) | Dia Azzawi (1st ed.), Zuhayr Abu Shayib (2nd ed.) |
| ليس بهذا الشكل ولا بشكلٍ آخر (“Not This Way, Not That Way”) | 1997 (1st ed.), 2018 (2nd ed.) | Kuwait City: Qurtas (1st ed.), Kuwait City: Masarat (2nd ed.) | 216 (1st ed.), 296 (2nd ed.) | Abdullah Youssef (1st ed.), Mohammed al-Saleem (2nd ed.) |
| الأعمال الشعرية (“Poetic Works,” 2 volumes) | 2000 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing | 1176 | Abdul Aziz Al-Halal |
| علاج المسافة (“Distance Therapy”) | 2000 (1st ed.), 2002 (2nd ed.) | Tunis: Dar Tber Al Zaman (1st ed.), Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing/Manama: Ministry of Information (2nd ed.) | 120 (1st ed.), 90 (2nd ed.) | none (1st ed.), Ebrahim Busaad (2nd ed.) |
| له حصةٌ في الولع (“He Has a Share of Fancy”) | 2000 | Beirut: Dar al-Intishar al-Arabi | Abbas Youssef | |
| المستحيل الأزرق (“The Impossible Blue,” illustrated by photographer Saleh al-Azzaz, French and Malaysian translations by Abdellatif Laabi, English translations by Naeem Ashour) | 2001 | 160 | Saleh al-Azzaz | |
| ورشة الأمل (“The Hope Factory,” history of Muharraq) | 2004 (1st ed.), 2007 (2nd ed.) | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing/Manama: Sheikh Ebrahim Center (1st and 2nd eds.) | 231 (1st ed.), 292 (2nd ed.) | Zuhayr Abu Shayib |
| أيقظتني الساحرة ("The Witch Woke Me Up," (English translation by Dr. Muhammad al-Khuzai) | 2004 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing | 160 | Abbas Youssef |
| ما أجملك أيها الذئب.. جائع وتتعفف عن الجثث (“Oh Wolf, How Beautiful You Are”) | 2006 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing | 244 | Zuhayr Abu Shayib |
| لستَ ضيفاً على أحد (“Not a Guest Anymore”) | 2007 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing | 168 | Zuhayr Abu Shayib [22] |
| فتنة السؤال (“The Sedition of Question”) | 2008 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing | 362 | Zuhayr Abu Shayib |
| دع الملاك (“Let the Angel”) | 2008 | Damascus: Dar Kanaan | 111 | Lubna Ahmad |
| الأزرق المستحيل يليه أخبار مجنون ليلى (“The Impossible Blue/Majnun Laila”) | 2009 (double re-publication) | Cairo: Dar Al Nahda Al Arabeya | 252 | |
| إيقاظ الفراشة التي هناك (“Awaken the Butterfly Within,” anthology) | 2009 | Damascus: Ninawa Publishing House | 232 | Hussein Fakhr |
| الغزالة يوم الأحد (“The Sunday Gazelle,” anthology) | 2010 | Beirut: Dar al-Ghawoon | 159 | Maya Salem |
| طرفة بن الوردة (“The Rose of Tarafa,” with Tufool and Mohammed Haddad) | 2011 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing | 531 | Zuhayr Abu Shayib |
| مكابدات الأمل (“The Endurance of Hope”) | 2012 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing/Manama: Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities | 270 | Zuhayr Abu Shayib |
| لستِ جُرحاً ولا خنجراً أنتِ البكاء الطويل في الليل (“You Are Neither a Wound Nor a Dagger, Only the Long Weeping of the Night”) | 2012 (1st ed.), 2014 (2nd ed.) | Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization (1st ed.), Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing (2nd ed.) | 193 (1st ed.), 168 (2nd ed.) | Ahmed al-Labbad (1st ed.), Zuhayr Abu Shayib (2nd ed.) |
| النهايات تنأى (“Endings Disperse”) | 2013 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing/Manama: Sheikh Ebrahim Center | 128 | Zuhayr Abu Shayib |
| سماء عليلة (“An Ailing Sky,” anthology) | 2013 | Isa Town, Bahrain: Masaa Publishing | 103 | Tufool Haddad |
| الأعمال النثرية (“Prose Works,” 3 volumes) | 2014 | Beirut/Dubai: Madarek Publishing | 504 (1st vol.), 763 (2nd vol), 502 (3rd vol.) | Qassim Haddad |
| أيها الفحم يا سيدي (“Oh, Sir Charcoal,” with Tufool and Mohammed Haddad, inspired by the notebooks of Vincent van Gogh) | 2015 (1st ed.), 2016 (2nd ed.) | Bahrain: Masaa Publishing (1st ed.), Manama: Special Editions (2nd ed.) | 417 (1st ed.), 431 (2nd ed.) | Tufool Haddad |
| يوميات بيت هاينريش بول (“Diary from the Heinrich Böll Foundation,” with photography by Tufool Haddad) | 2016 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing/Manama: Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities | 261 | Tufool Haddad |
| تعديل في موسيقى الحجرة (“Revisions to Chamber Music”) | 2017 | Amman/Ramallah: Dar al-Ahlia | 208 | Zuhayr Abu Shayib |
| رشيقٌ كالوقت ولا بيتَ له (“Agile as Time and Without a Home”) | 2017 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing | 296 | Zuhayr Abu Shayib |
| مثل وردة تقلّد عطراُ (“Like a Rose Imitating Perfume”) | 2017 | Kuwait City: Dar Kalemat | 121 | Tufool Haddad |
| ثلاثون بحراً للغرق (“Thirty Seas of Drowning”) | 2017 | Milan: Al-Mutawassit | 160 | Khalid Nasiri |
| رفيف الظل (“Rafif’s Shadow,” with journalists Saad Al-Dosari and Adel Khozam) | 2018 | Beirut/Dubai: Madarek Publishing | 165 | |
| لا تصقل أصفادك (“Don’t Polish Your Handcuffs,” complete anthology) | 2019 | Kuwait City: Takween | 271 | Yousef Al-Abdullah |
| عزلة الملكات وعلاج المسافة (“The Isolation of Queens/Distance Therapy”) | 2019 (double re-publication) | Dubai: Al Owais Awards Foundation | 212 | Tufool Haddad |
| موسيقى الكتابة عن ايقاظ الذاكرة وصقل المرايا (“Writing Music Is about Awakening Memory and Refining Mirrors”) | 2019 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing | 200 | Zuhayr Abu Shayib |
| ما الأمل؟ (“What Hope?”) | 2020 | Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing | 280 | Zuhayr Abu Shayib |
| جوهرة المراصد (“Jewel Collection”) | 2021 | Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: Rewayat Books | 331 | Qassim Haddad |
| أنطولوجيا النصوص المقدسة (“The Ontology of Sacred Texts”) | upcoming |
| Festival | Year | Host country |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd Al-Marbad Poetry Festival (Baghdad) | 1974 | Iraq |
| 10th Asilah Arts Festival (Asilah) | 1987 | Morocco |
| Spanish-Arabic Poetry Festival (Sana’a) | 1990 | Yemen |
| 14th Cairo International Film Festival | 1990 | Egypt |
| Qurain Cultural Festival | 1994 | Kuwait |
| 1st Arab Poetry Festival (Muscat) | 1995 | Oman |
| 3rd Qurain Cultural Festival | 1996 | Kuwait |
| Cairo Creative Poetry Festival | 1996 | Egypt |
| Al-Babtain Spring Poetry Festival (Al-Adwani Cycle) | 1996 | Abu Dhabi [23] |
| Rabat Poetry Festival | 1997 | Morocco |
| 16th Jerash Festival | 1997 | Jordan |
| 5th Gulf Cooperation Council Theatre Festival | 1997 | Kuwait |
| Amsterdam Immigration Foundation Arab Culture Festival | 1998 | Netherlands |
| Les Voix de la Mediterranée Festival (Lodève) | 1999 | France |
| Arab World Institute Spring Poetry Festival (Paris) | 2000 | France |
| 2nd Arab Poetry Festival (House of Jordanian Poetry, Amman) | 2001 | Jordan |
| German-Arab Poetry Festival (Sana’a) | 2001 | Yemen |
| International Poetry Festival of Medellín (Medellín) | 2001 | Colombia [24] |
| 1st Jableh Cultural Festival (near Latakia) | 2004 | Syria [25] |
| 11th Qurain Cultural Festival | 2004 | Kuwait |
| 26th Asilah Arts Festival | 2004 | Morocco [26] |
| 4th Al-Mutanabbi International Poetry Festival (Zurich) | 2004 | Switzerland [27] |
| 14th Amman International Theatre Festival (6th Arab Theatre and Poetry Session) | 2007 | Jordan |
| 8th Karneval der Kulturen (Berlin) | 2008 | Germany |
| Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World Festival (Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.) | 2009 | United States |
| Jordan Festival (Amman) | 2009 | Jordan |
| Poetry on the Road Festival (Bremen) | 2011 | Germany |
| International Festival of Literature and of Young People's Literature | 2011 | Algeria |
| 10th Les Voix de la Mediterranée Festival | 2011 | France |
| 33rd Asilah Arts Festival | 2011 | Morocco [28] |
| 1st Cairo International Poetry Festival | 2014 | Egypt |
| Khan al-Funoun | 2016 | Jordan |
| Sharjah International Book Fair | 2016 | United Arab Emirates |
| 38th Asilah Arts Festival | 2016 | Morocco [29] |
| Voix Vives de Méditerranée en Méditerranée Festival (Sète) | 2017 | France [30] |
| 50th Cairo International Book Fair Golden Jubilee | 2019 | Egypt [31] |
| 34th Jerash Festival | 2019 | Jordan [32] |
| Seminar | Year | Host Country |
|---|---|---|
| Joint Cultural Work Symposium | 1985 | Kuwait/Saudi Arabia |
| Georgetown University Centennial Poetry Symposium (Washington, D.C.) | 1989 | United States |
| Palestinian Intifada Symposium (Sana’a) | 1989 | Yemen |
| Aboul-Qacem Echebbi International Symposium (Fez) | 1994 | Morocco |
| Al-Arabi Sympsoium on Arab Culture and the Prospects for Digital Publishing | 2001 | Kuwait [33] |
| Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol Symposium (Achievements and Values) (Supreme Council of Culture) | 2003 | Egypt |
| UNESCO Symposium on Book Publication | 2005 | France |
| Al-Babtain Symposium for Poetic Creativity | 2013 | Morocco |
| Convention | Year | Host country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Lebanese Writers’ Union Conference (Beirut) | 1984 | Lebanon |
| Literary Criticism Conference (Towards a New Vision of Literary Theories, University of Bahrain) | 1993 | Bahrain |
| 2nd Lebanese Writers’ Union Conference (Beirut) | 1994 | Lebanon |
| German-Arab Poetry Conference (Sana’a) | 2000 | Yemen [34] |
| PEN Centre Germany Conference | 2012 | Germany |
| Conference | Year | Host country |
|---|---|---|
| French-Arab Poetry Encounter (Grenoble/Rabat) | 1986 | France/Morocco |
| Arab Poetry Encounter (Nantes) | 1990 | France |
| 1st Arab Poetry Forum | 1997 | Tunisia |
| 1st Arab Cultural Forum (Beirut) | 1998 | Lebanon |
| Saadi Shirazi Forum (Tehran) | 2000 | Iran |
| 2nd Dar al-Mada Cultural Festival (Damascus) | 2001 | Syria |
| 1st Young Arab Poets’ Forum (Sana’a): The 1990s and Prospects for Poetic Writing | 2004 | Yemen [35] |
| 3rd Cairo Forum for Creative Arab Novelists | 2005 | Egypt |
| Arab Poetry Conference | 2006 | Morocco |
| 5th Cairo International Forum for Arab Poetry | 2020 | Egypt [36] |
| Year | Title | Researcher | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | "تعددية الشكل في الكتابة الشعرية الحديثة - إنجاز قاسم حداد نموذجاً" (“Pluralism of Form in Modern Poetic Writing: Examples from the Work of Qassim Haddad”) | Mujib Zahrani | Gulf Poetry Festival (Bahrain) [37] |
| 1998 | "الخطاب النقدي عند قاسم حداد وصلته بتجربته الشعرية - رؤية نقدية" (“Qassim Haddad’s Critical Discourse and its Connection to His Poetic Experience: A Critical Study”) | Abdullah Ahmad al-Muhanna | Kuwait University Journal of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies [38] |
| 2004 | "قاسم حداد : شاعر المخيلة" (“Qassim Haddad: Poet of Imagination”) | Mohammed Abdul Muttalib | 26th Asilah Arts Festival [39] |
| 2007 | "انماط الصورة في شعر قاسم حداد ديوان القيامة انموذجا" (“Visual Patterns in Qassim Haddad’s ‘Judgment Day’” | Ashwaq Ghazi Safih Al-Yasiri | University of Basrah Centre for Arab Studies [40] |
| 2013 | "بنية اللغة الشعرية عند قاسم حداد" (“The Structure of Qassim Haddad’s Poetic Language”) | Omar Hasan al-Ameri | Yarmouk University Faculty of Arts, Department of Arabic Language and Literature [41] |
| 2015 | "سيمياء البياض في شعر قاسم حداد" (“Decaying Whiteness in the Poetry of Qassim Haddad”) | Hussein Al-Ghadiri | University of Bahrain College of Arts [42] |
| 2016 | "التعالق الاستعاري في الخطاب الشعري عند قاسم حداد (طرفة بن الوردة انموذجاً)" (“Allegory in the Poetic Discource of Qasim Haddad’s ‘The Rose of Tarafa’”) | Ali Sarmad Hussein/Farhan Badri Al-Harbi | University of Babylon College of Humanities [43] [44] |
| 2019 | "التجربة الشعرية لدى قاسم حداد" (“The Poetic Experience of Qassim Haddad”) | Tariq Fattouh | Nizwa Magazine [45] |
| 2019 | "القصيدة التأويل، أو الشعر بينما يحدث: كيف ينظر قاسم حداد إلى العالم من خلال اللغة؟" (“Poetry As It Happens: How Does Qassim Haddad View the World Through Language?”) | Hatem al-Zahrani | Ma3a (online learning platform) [46] [47] |
| 2019 | "عالم قاسم حداد الشعري - دراسة نقدية" (“The World of Qassim Haddad: A Critical Study”) | Abdullah Khalifa | Ninawa Publishing, Damascus, Syria [48] |
| 2019 | "أسلوبيّة تشكّل صورة الوطن ودلالتها في قصيدة “الصهيل” للشاعر قاسم حداد" (“Style’s Influence on a Nation’s Image in Qassim Haddad’s ‘The Neighing’”) | Fatima Sobhi Yazbek | Lebanese University Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Arabic Language and Literature [49] |
| 2020 | "خطاب المركز والهامش في شعر قاسم حداد : دراسة في ضوء علم النص" (“Discourse Between the Center and the Margin in the Poetry of Qassim Haddad: A Study in the Light of Textual Science”) | Fida al-Aidi | Hashemite University College of Arts, Department of Arabic Language and Literature [50] |
| 2020 | "الكونُ موقفٌ: الشعريّة والنبوءة في أعمال قاسم حداد" (“The Universe Is a Stance: Poetics and Prophesy in the Works of Qassim Haddad”) | Miguel Merino | Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies [51] [52] |
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Mubarak bin Rashid Jassim Al Khater was a Bahraini historian, writer, and poet. He attended the Al-Hidaya Al-Khalifia Boys’ School in Muharraq, then finished secondary school in Manama with a diploma in commerce. He worked after graduation at the Courts Administration, a division of the Ministry of Justice (1955-1967), the Ministry of Waqf (1967-1982), and the Ministry of Information (1982-1994). Retiring in 1994, he belonged to the National Council for Culture, Arts, and Literature, Sunni Waqf Council, Union of Arab Historians, the Al Eslah Society, the International Islamic Literature Association, and the Bahrain History and Antiquities Society.
Naif Gahani is a Saudi poet and writer, born in Qurayyat in 1968. He is the head of the Tabuk Literary Club in 2012, and he created a corner called in Al-Riyadh newspaper. He published many books, which vary between poetry, novel and intellectual writings. One of his notable works is a book called.
Faouzi Khidr is an Egyptian teacher, journalist, writer, and manuscript specialist at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, an advisor to the General Authority for Cultural Palaces, and a university professor.
Salman Zain Al Deen a Lebanese poet, author, novelist and critic who also works as educational inspector. His works include poems, prose and literary criticism, especially of novels.
Hassan Al-Matrooshi is an Omani poet, translator, and journalist. He was born in the Sultanate of Oman. He wrote several poems and poetry collections like The Banished Descendent and he has won several awards, the most important of which is the Tulliola-Renato Filippelli Italian Prize for World Poetry.
Nadra Haddad was a Syrian poet, and a founding member of The Pen League, the first Arabic-language literary society in North America.
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