Title: Silencing the sea
Description: Furani follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. He takes his reader down ancient roads and across military checkpoints to join the poets' worlds and engage with the rhythms of their lifelong journeys in Islamic and Arabic history, language, and verse.
Subjects: Poetics, Secularism in literature, Arabic poetry, History and criticism, Arabic poetry, history and criticism
Places: Palestine
Time periods: 20th century