Rain Song (al-Sayyab)

Rain Song (انشودة المطر “Unshūdat almaṭar”) is a famous 1960 poetry collection and Arabic poem by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab[1][2][3][4] One of the "great poems in modern Arabic poetry", it has been compared to T.S.

Eliot's The Waste Land.

[5] The poem was set to music by Saudi singer and composer Mohammed Abdu in 1992.

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