Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd

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Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century NajdThis lively volume collects poems by Hmedan al Shwe'ir, who lived in Najd in the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the hegemony of the Wahhabi movement in the early eighteenth century. A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self deprecation, and invective verse (hija'), Hmedan was acerbic in his criticisms of society and its morals, voiced in in a poetic idiom that is widely referred to as "Nabati," here a mix of Najdi vernacular and archaic

Drawing on workplace

Real life might be messier than his favorite books

They contrive their escape

and medicines management

A hundred decorated tear-out sheets to fold into a fleet of paper spaceship planes

Written by a psychiatrist

Attached to the few objects around him are one-word

minimise the stress of probate

survives the bomb blasts at Chandni Chowk

until he bumps into Pihu

the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt not only was physically the biggest single-engine fighter

and here he teaches you what it takes to find more of it' Adam Grant