Sayed Gouda

Sayed Gouda (born 1968 in Cairo) is an Egyptian poet and novelist. He majored in the Chinese language. Sayed Gouda won a first prize of poetry in 1990 before he migrated to Hong Kong in 1992. He has three books of poetry in the Arabic language and two novels in the English language called Once Upon a Time in Cairo and Closed Gate. He has translated hundreds of poems from and into Arabic, Chinese, and English. His works and translations have appeared in Arabic, English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Macedonian, Uzbek, Thai, and Mongolian. Currently he is the editor of a literary website called Nadwah in five languages: Arabic, Chinese,English, French, and German. Sayed Gouda has organized a monthly literary salon in Hong Kong since April 2004. Most of his translations have already been published in several periodicals in Egypt, China, and Hong Kong. Sayed Gouda has been invited to participate in many international poetry festivals around the world like Man Hong Kong Literary Festival in Hong Kong (2002–2007), International Poetry Festival of Cairo in Egypt (2007, 2009), Qinghai International Poetry Festival in China (2007, 2011, & 2013), Struga Poetry Nights in Macedonina (2009), Mid-Autumn Poetry Festival in Beijing and Anhui (2014). He is a holder of PhD from City University of Hong Kong. His dissertation is a comparative study of the revival of traditional forms in contemporary poetry. His research focuses mainly on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, and German poetics. Other research interests include comparative poetics, comparative literature, and prosody studies.

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Gouda (pottery)

Gouda is a style of Dutch pottery named after the city of Gouda. Gouda pottery gained worldwide prominence in the early 20th century and remains highly desirable to collectors today.

Gouda pottery is diverse and visually distinctive in appearance, typically illustrated with colourful and highly decorated Art Nouveau or Art Deco designs.

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Vokkaliga

Vokkaliga (Kannada: ಒಕ್ಕಲಿಗ) (pronounced Okkaliga)/Gowda is an umbrella term for various agricultural, previously endogamous social groups with a martial past, found mainly in the Old Mysore Region, Bangalore South, Bangalore rural, Kolar, Chikkaballapura, Ramanagara ,Tumkur and Hassan of southern Karnataka. The Vokkaligas are primarily agriculturists. They form a politically and numerically dominant ForwardCaste group and were the most populous group until the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 which enlarged the erstwhile State of Mysore by the inclusion of predominantly Canarese districts of the State of Bombay, State of Hyderabad and Coorg, (Mysore State was renamed Karnataka in 1973) following which the Lingayats became the most populous social group in north Karnataka. Together the two communities dominate Karnataka State politics. Vokkaligas is Karnataka’s second largest caste group (after Lingayats), who are estimated to form around 15% of the population.

Etymology

Vokkaliga is a Kannada word of considerable antiquity finding mention in some of the earliest available literary works of the language, such as the Kavirajamarga, Pampa Bharata, Mangaraja's Nighantu et al. and has been used as an appellation for the cultivator community since time immemorial. Generally the term has come to mean an agriculturist though various etymological derivations are available. A few likely derivations are as follows: