• Source: Rain Song (al-Sayyab)

Rain Song (انشودة المطر “Unshūdat almaṭar”) is a famous 1960 poetry collection and Arabic poem by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab One of the "great poems in modern Arabic poetry", it has been compared to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.




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The poem was set to music by Saudi singer and composer Mohammed Abdu in 1992.




References

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• Rain Song (al-Sayyab)
• Rain song
• Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
• Al-Marzubani
• Coffeehouse culture of Baghdad
• Mahmoud Darwish
• Arabs
• One Thousand and One Nights
• December 1964
• Syrian literature