How to see palace pillars as if they were palm trees - Hussein Nassereddine racism In Passing Images: Art in

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How to see palace pillars as if they were palm trees - Hussein Nassereddine racism In Passing Images: Art inThe book opens with a single line of poetry about "Abdallh The Slain" (Abdallh al Qatl), a poet said to have been killed by the last thing he saw: the castles columns appearing to him as palm trees. The remainder of the book consists of footnotes on each word in the verse and on the works of this poet, who exists only on the margins of the Arabic literary canon. The text expands into reflections on monumentality, architectural description, the