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ghazelor ghazal or gazelIn Islamic literature, a lyric poem, generally short and graceful in form and typically dealing with love. The genre developed in late 7th-century Arabia. Ghazels begin with a rhymed couplet whose rhyme is repeated in all subsequent even lines, while the odd lines are unrhymed. The two main types of ghazel are native to the Hejaz (what is now western Saudi Arabia) and Iraq. It reached its greatest refinement in the works of Hafez. American poets such as Adrienne Rich have used variations of the form. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He considers how filmmakers deal with new political and social rules regulating modesty and gendered segregation and focuses on the works of film directors and multimedia artists, such as Ghazel, who appropriate the veil as a vehicle for critiquing the political establishment in Iran. He was also infatuated with a type of poetry called al-Darmi, which is often known as ghazel al-banat,(12) of which he himself has written about two thousand lines. |
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