Atash Alnakhil

About This Project

A 96-page collection of (mawwals) in the local vernacular, issued by Dar Al-Ilm Lil-Millain in Beirut, in June 1970. It was the first Gulf experience in restoring the art of (mawwal) as a traditional art form and expressing contemporary concerns through it. The poet used the famous (Mawwal Al-Sibai) (Al-Zuhairi), which was popular in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iraq. He went beyond the (Mawwal Al-Sibai) in experiments that came in nine parts and then broke the mold of the (mawwal) within the space of the (tafa’ilah) poem in other experiments.

In these poems, the poet expressed another social alienation represented by agricultural feudalism and the outcome of palm cultivation in Bahrain, where palm trees thirst to death because farmers invest in other projects. In addition, the collection contained various personal and human experiences. The collection was reissued in four editions of 3,000 thousand copies each, the last of which was in 1994 by Dar Al-Ghad for Publishing and Distribution in Bahrain.