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Article: The minaret. (poem) (Bearing Witness: Recent Literature from Lebanon)
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- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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The words of poetry are stones, But they do not build a house.(*) Rather, a minaret. (*) A "house" ("bayt") in Arabic is also a line of poetry.
Kaissar Afif (B. 1945) was born in Saida, Lebanon, and studied philosophy at the American University of Beirut and the University of ...
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