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This paper examines how aesthetic practices articulate with discourses of modernity and nationalism in contemporary Syria. Dr. Shannon is a visiting lecturer in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas. His poetry, anthologized in representative collections of Arab and American poetry, has been both claimed by tradition and noted as a distinctive and original voice. Mattatwa will discuss his work as a poet, the centrality of his bilinguality to his poetry, and about the role translation plays in his writing. But he was never able to publish one of his most important works - his Description of Egypt .