How does poetry relate to the core values of Bedouin culture?
What will be an ideal response?
• Poetry has been recited or sung for centuries in pre- and post-Islamic Arabia and the prevalence of poetry and song illustrates the key position of language in Arab culture.
• Transient nomadic desert tribes called Bedouins have memorialized the distinctive characteristics of their life in "song, dance, poetry, stories, and artifacts [that] are key to Arab collective identity."
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