On this video recorded episode of Kalam, Edgar sits with the Gazan poet and very much a friend of the podcast, Mosab Abu Toha, for a discussion about, among other things, the history of Arabic poetry.

Why are poets so venerated in the Arab world, and what did poetry sound like before Islam?

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