University of Basrah Organizes a Workshop on Poet Mahmoud Al-Breikan
The Basrah and Arab Gulf Studies Center at the University of Basrah organized a cultural workshop titled “Towards the Senses in Al-Breikan’s Construction of the Poetic Image.”
The workshop aimed to focus on the concept of the senses as a modern term, examining how the Basrah colloquial dialect is integrated into classical poetic texts and endowed with new connotations that serve the artistic context.
The workshop, presented by Dr. Ahmad Sudani Hussein, analyzed Al-Breikan’s poem “The Lighthouse Keeper” as a practical example. It examined colloquial words, their grammatical positions, and contextual meanings, demonstrating how this approach transforms grammatical rules from a formal system into a cognitive framework that enhances the production and perception of the poetic image through the senses.
The workshop concluded that Al-Breikan introduced a qualitative shift in modern Arabic poetry, and that the Basrah dialect possesses the flexibility and authenticity that allowed him to employ it artistically, reflecting his linguistic sensibility and achieving harmony between linguistic structure and emotional resonance in the poetic image.
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