Murad Rafik Albayyari

Time, Voice, and Self in Maha Al-Attoum’s Poetry: A Semantic–Linguistic Study of Present Tense Negation and Affirmation in Imra’at Al Waqt

This study examines how present tense verbs in their negative and affirmative forms function semantically and stylistically in Maha Al-Attoum’s poetry collection Imra’at Al‑Waqt (The Woman of Time). By tracing the poet’s alternation between negation and affirmation, the research seeks to uncover how verbal choices cons...