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Question

A long prose poem by this author asks “Does it happen much, that you are awakened from one dream by another, itself the interpretation of the dream?” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author whose poem Memory for Forgetfulness opens “Out of one dream, another dream is born.” The refrain “Write down! / I am an Arab,” appears in this Palestinian poet’s “Identity Card.”

ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish

[10e] Darwish’s poem “A Soldier Dreams of White Lilies” compares love to a glass of this substance. A line in Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat mentions “a Jug of [this drink], a Loaf of Bread—and Thou.”

ANSWER: wine [prompt on alcohol]

[10h] Darwish’s poem “We Fear for a Dream” appears in the volume Victims of a Map, which he co-wrote with Samih al-Qasim and this poet of “Worries (A Dream).” This Syrian poet of Songs of Mihyar the Damascene created the first complete Arabic translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

ANSWER: Adonis [or Adunis; or Ali Ahmad Said Esber]

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