Arts+and+Literature

Arts and Literature []

The Middle East literature includes Arabic, Persian and Israeli. Arabic literature has to do with modern writers that have produced poetry, novels, biographies and histories.Arabic's loved poems infact in their poems they talked about were love, war and courage. Poetry for the Arabic's have been around for centuries and it's been passed down for generations. A very famous Arabic writers named Naguib Mahfouz. He wrote many poems and loved novels. He's famous for "The Cairo Trilogy", which tells a story about Egyptian life. After creating this famous book he became the first Arabic writer to win the Nobel Piece Prize for literature. Persian literature was much like Arabic Literature in many aspects. Persian literature wrote many poems that dealt with God. Persian literature wrote many epic or narrative poems because it had a lot to do with their society. One very famous poem was "The thousand and one nights', it later became very popular in the west. A famous poet named Firdawsi was famous for a story called the "Shah-nama" or it was also called the "Book of Kings". This story that Firdawsi wrote about was a man named Rustam who killed his son and later in the story Rustam knew he was wrong and later felt grief and emotion. Another famous poet named Omar Khayyam wrote an amazing poem that was called Rubaiyat which later became a big hit in the west. He was also very talented with many professsions that included an astronomer, mathematician, philosopher and physician.

The last literature of the Middle East is the Israeli. Israeli literature had to do with Jewish diaspora, the Holocaust, and Arab-Israeli conflicts. A famous writer named Shmuel Agnon was a short story writer that was famous for his novel "The Day Before Yesterday", that was mainly about problems with Jews that lived in Israel. Another famous poet named Yehuda Amichai wrote songs of Jerusalem and myself which it was called. Hebrews loved Amichai because they liked to learn about traditional Jewish themes and Amichai wrote alot about that.