Deconstructing the Notion of Literary Genre: Ancient Egyptian and Premodern Arabic Poetics

Samia Mehrez, The American University in Cairo (AUC)
Hany Rashwan

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lecture by Hany Rashwan, Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham Listen to Dr. Hany Rashwan unveil ancient Egyptian mysteries as he compares the stylistics of premodern Arabic poetics or balāgha to ancient Egyptian rhetoric. Rashwan fascinates us with a rich and deep knowledge of the literary and linguistic closeness between premodern Arabic literature and ancient Egyptian literature.