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Article: Common language; Political and social themes unite diverse works in 'The Poetry of Arab Women'.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- February 22, 2002
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When Bethlehem native and international scholar Nathalie Handal set out to collect a volume of poetry by Arab women, she didn't know her book would be published in a year when the world's attention would be focused on the Middle East.
Published last autumn, Handal's book, "The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology'' (Interlink, $22) draws on many voices, from the oppressed to the privileged, to prove that the experience of Arab women is too varied to be stereotyped.
Handal will read from the book today at 4 p.m. in the Bentley Library Browsing Room at Simmons College. The event is free and open to the public.
Handal said the poetry she ...