Brother Yasin Again
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Request an mp3 of this poem Nabeel performs his poetry here, with the accompaniment of the Oud - a traditional lute like instrument. Brother Yasin was the poem that made Nabeel’s name in Iraq and across the wider Arab world. Written in the winter of 1974 it caused a sensation on publication, overturning tradition with a radical and modern form
Brother Yasin extract performed by Nabeel in London, April 2007
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The revolutionary poet in Budapest Winter 1982
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. that mixed Iraq’s history, mythology and Nabeel’s own journey through life. The resulting poem possessed an air of magic realism that was adored by many. But the attention the poem brought also propelled him to notoriety. The ‘Iraqi Bob Dylan’ soon found that his popularity had made him the target of the regime. It was less than two years later that he was put on Saddam Hussein’s cultural blacklist along with other notable’s from Sartre, Shakespeare, Camus, Virginia Woolf to children’s favourite Tin Tin!