The Al-Hamlet Summit

A Political Arabesque

von Sulayman Al-Bassam

176 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9781902806624
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2007
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: University of Hertfordshire Press