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.Her second novel,system, which creates itsLiterature Crescent, is an eloquent story of Iraqi emigrant life in Los Angeles, withexotic, unique sound.CLASSICAL LITERATURE & POETRY a haunting and luscious tale of exile, love and food, and is recommended.The Quran itself is considered the finest example of classical Arabic writ- For details on her latest book, The Language of Baklava, see p56.ing and gives Arabic poetry and literature a highly regarded, even divine, East of the Jordan, by Laila Halaby, also deals with the issues of mi-calling.gration and the clash of modernity and tradition among four youngAl-Muallaqat, which pre-dates the Quran and the advent of Islam, Jordanian cousins living in Jordan and the USA.is a widely celebrated collection of early Arab poetry.Prior to Islam, a Palestinian Yasmin Zahran s A Beggar at Damascus Gate is a dark novelpoet was regarded by Arabs as having knowledge forbidden to ordinary that mixes mystery and romance, told in flashbacks from a budget hotelpeople, supposedly acquired from the demon.Al-Muallaqat means the in Petra.suspended , and refers to traditions according to which the poems were Pillars of Salt by Fadia Faqir tells the tale of two Jordanian womenhung for public view, possibly on the walls of the Kaaba in Mecca.from different branches of life who meet in an asylum in 1920s Jordan.As the Middle Ages drew to a close and the Arab world came to be Her previous novel, Nisanit, deals with the Palestinian struggle and isdominated by other forces (most notably the Ottoman Turks), Arabic harder to find.literature also faded, stagnating in a classicist rut dominated by a complex Story of a City: A Childhood in Amman by Abd al-Rahman Munif elo-and burdensome poetical inheritance until well into the 19th century.quently describes life in 1940s Amman from a child s perspective.Munif sOne of the few classical Jordanian poets was Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal, also other major work, Cities of Salt, follows the development of a village inknown as Irar.Born in Irbid in 1899, he was renowned for his incisive and an unspecified country in Arabia in the 1930s, when oil is discovered.humorous poems about Arab nationalism and anticolonialism.Unusually the main character is the city, and its transformation under 46 THE CULTURE " " Medi a www.l onel ypl anet.com www.l onel ypl anet.com THE CULTURE " " Spor t 47Cultural Weekly , is similar but published only every Tuesday.It also hasCONTEMPORARY ARTa double-page supplement in French called Le Jourdain.One of the first Jordanian painters to gain any international recognition was the redoubtableOf the many local Arabic daily and weekly newspapers printed in Amman,Fahrenasa Zeid (the great-great aunt of King Abdullah II), who exhibited works in the galleriesAd-Dustour, Al-Ra i and Al-Aswaq are among the more popular.of Europe and the USA in the 1910s and 1920s.However, it really wasn t until the creation ofJordan TV broadcasts on three channels.Channels 1 and 3 broadcastthe Jordan Artists Association in 1978, and the opening of the Jordan National Gallery of Finein Arabic, and Channel 2 airs bad Australian soap operas, worse Ameri-Arts two years later, that contemporary art in Jordan was taken seriously.can sitcoms, locally produced news (all in English) and documentariesMany Jordanian artists are Palestinians who fled the West Bank during the two wars within French.Israel: Adnan Yahya specialises in gut-wrenching paintings of Palestinian persecution; AhmadUncensored international satellite stations, such as the BBC, CNN,Nawash is famous for his distinctive stick figures in pastel colours; and another famous Palestinian-MTV and Al-Jazeera, are found in the homes of most wealthy Jordanians,Jordanian painter is Ibrahim abu-Rubb.all rooms in top-end hotels and many midrange hotels.Other popular contemporary Jordanian painters include: Suha Shoman, Yaser Duweik, Ali Jabri,Ahmad al-Safareeni, Mohanna Durra (an internationally renowned Jordanian cubist and abstractSPORTpainter), Ahmed al-Khateeb and Rafiq Lahham.Lahham is a pioneer of modern Jordanian art.HisPerhaps unsurprisingly, the most popular sport in the country is footballwork interprets traditional Islamic architectural forms in an eclectic mix of styles, with some of his(soccer).The Premier League Championship plays mostly on Friday dur-most appealing work incorporating Kufic script along with abstract elements and a striking useing winter (from about September to March), and features teams fromof colour.An emerging female artist is Samar Haddadin, whose paintings and drawings captureAmman and most major towns.The fans take the game so seriously thatreligious harmony.Other female artists of renown include Karima ben Othman, Basma Nimry,the league was cancelled in 1998 after a referee was beaten up by fans, andClara Khreis, Rula Shukairy, Riham Ghassib, Ghada Dahdaleh and Mukaram Haghandouga.Thethe game abandoned.The cancellation was not caused by the horror of theJordanian sculptor Larissa Najjar specialises in sandstone sculptures with different colours andinjury to the referee, but by the vehement disagreement about which teamunusual designs.Also renowned for their sculptures are Samaa Tabaa and Margaret Tadros.should be the winner of the abandoned game.Works by these and other Jordanian artists can be seen in the numerous art galleries andOther sports that Jordanians enjoy watching, participating in locallycultural centres of Amman, particularly the excellent Darat al-Funun (p83) and Jordan Nationaland competing in at overseas events, include judo, table tennis, kite flying,Gallery of Fine Arts (p84).volleyball and horse racing (including long-distance endurance races).Major sporting events are often held at the massive Sports City, innorthern Amman, and at Al-Hasan Sports City in Irbid.In mid-1999,the influence of the West, rather than its inhabitants.The novel was Jordan hosted the 9th Pan Arab Games, with over 4000 athletes fromtranslated by Peter Theroux (brother of travel writer Paul) and banned most Arab countries.Prince Feisal (King Abdullah s younger brother) isin Saudi Arabia.In 1992 Munif was awarded the Sultan al-Uways award, closely involved in Jordan s sporting infrastructure and in charge of thethe Arab equivalent of a Nobel Prize for Literature.country s Olympic committee.Honour Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan by Norma Khouri The vast deserts and good roads are ideal for car rallies such as theis the now discredited story of an honour killing in Jordan.The author 700km Jordan International Rally organised by the Royal Automobileis accused of making up the supposedly true story
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