Arif K. Abukhudairi

Brunei.

This is a slender compilation of the author's newspaper columns on Arabic literature while he was working in South Korea. They are interesting, and I imagine that he knows what he's talking about, but just asserting something to be true of a poem, or genre, or the status of women doesn't support its truthfulness--I wanted more examples and less simply insisting that he was right. That may be okay for a newspaper column but it wears thin over even a short collection.

I'd like to find something more Brunei-centric, so while I'll tick off the country on my list, I'm still watching for a more representative author.… (más)