All right!
"Nabati' not found in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics.
Nor in Wikipedia (transferred to 'Arabic').
Alas....
Doug
On 10-Mar-10, at 6:28 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> [from the bbc website]
>
> MILLION'S POET
>
> Million's Poet is one of the most popular tv shows in the Middle
> East's gulf
> region. A reality televison monster now in its fourth year, the
> competition began
> back in December and culminates in a Grand Final this month.
> Thousands of poets
> compete across the region before live audiences, winners become
> household names,
> and women are featuring as never before. The BBC's Dawood Azami went
> along to a
> live recording in Abu Dhabi to discover this is a poetry competition
> with only
> one rule - the poems must all be Nabati, a rich poetic tradition
> which stretches
> back a thousand years.
>
>
>
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