A doctoral thesis entitled “The initiative to destination (Al-Tawtheeb) in Arabic Poetry in Iraq in the First Half of the 20th century-A cultural reading" was discussed in the Department of Arabic Language, College of Arts on Sunday morning, 10/24/2021.

The thesis submitted by the student Taklif Sabbar Toman included the a preface and three chapters. The preface was entitled: Tawtheeb in Arabic Poetry. The first chapter discussed the political resource of Tawtheeb poetry, and the second chapter dealt with the social resource of Tawtheeb poetry, and the third chapter included the directions of Tawtheeb poetry.

  The thesis aims at a serious attempt to get acquainted with Arab poetry in Iraq during the first half of the 20th century by focusing on the poems of poets in which they adopted inflammatory revolutionary positions that had the greatest impact on the emergence of new trends in Iraqi poetry, which began to emerge from its locality to broader Arab horizons, after the personality of the poet crystallized in him, who was no longer proud of singing, praising, satire and courting rulers and governors, as was the case in the 20th century.

The thesis reached the association of Arabic poetry in Iraq since the beginning of the 20th century with a realistic movement that tended to formulate its poetic models by depicting people's lives and their daily suffering. As a result, the poets turned to exploring the depths of society and conveying the injustice, injustice, poverty, ignorance, backwardness, and real loss that people suffer from, which seems at first glance to be inextricable, taking the element of motivation and arousal as a starting point for many of their poems in which they dealt with issues related to outdated customs and traditions.