QUESTION 2
Write short notes on the following characters in the play “Why do they hate us?’’
(a) Adam
(b) Hamzah
(c) Zaynab
QUESTION 4
Give a biographical account of Ahmad Shawqī in brief.
This question which was on the biography of Ahmad Shawqī, a poet in Modern Period of Arabic literature, was answered by many candidates. They did well also by mentioning his date of birth, genealogy, education, marriage and literary activities which contributed in no small measure to the growth and development of Modern Arabic Literature.
QUESTIONS 5 and 8
These two questions were the most answered of all the questions by the candidates because they were on literary appreciation of poetic excerpts from the poetry of the Islamic Period and the Pre-Islamic Period respectively. Candidates with good background in Arabic Language did well because answering the questions required mastery of Arabic Language.