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The Al-Hamlet Summit: A Political Arabesque(English)

(Paperback)

Graham Holderness, Sulayman Al-Bassam,

University of Hertfordshire Press (Publisher)

Published

2007

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By: Graham Holderness, Sulayman Al-Bassam | Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press | Released: 01 Apr 2007

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Powerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, Westernized dictator who juggles petro-dollars, arms dealers, and democratic slogans in an attempt to quell the rising tides of Islamic extremism. Presenting a composite of many Arab concerns that affect peoples from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic and beyond, it is a concrete and poetic formulation of an Arab viewpoint, combining aspects of the Arab oral-poetry tradition with the rhetoric of modern-day politics. It is Hamlet as pure, dangerous politics.