Aleppo in Contemporary Elegiac Poetry brings together more than 800 poems from five continents, written between 2011 and 2020, lamenting the tremendous and unfortunate destruction that the city suffered as a result of the ongoing war in Syria.
The book consists of 7 chapters, in which Hasan Kujjah investigates actual and symbolic value of Aleppo in the poets' lamentations, and how this is reflected in their poems. It is self-evident that poets around the globe interact with major issues that concern humanity as a whole, so they also engage with what happened to Aleppo, which is the oldest inhabited city in the history of human civilization.
The book begins with a glimpse of the lamentations of cities in poetic texts, followed by an analytical study of the themes of the poems in this volume, then lists the poems classified according to the style of their poetic formulation and their original languages.
Hasan Kujjah (Ph.D. candidate, Leiden University/Fellow of Chartered Management Institute, UK) is an author, researcher and lecturer in the fields of cultural heritage and human development. He lives in the Netherlands, and has published several books on literature, heritage and development.
Scholars, students, intellectuals, and all readers interested in poetry and literature, and in the history and heritage of Aleppo as an ancient city at the heart of the old-world.