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Extended Abstract Black Humor is one of the most important literary genres in poetry collections of "Al-Badawi Al-Ahmar" by Muhammad Al-Maghout, which has played the most important role in the fame of this work. Black connotes a laughter mixed with pain that comes from a rebellious person to deal with heterogeneous political and social situations. The main content of black humor is biting and mocking criticism about serious, sad and scary issues. "Al-Badawi Al-Ahmar", written into the free verse, is a valuable work in terms of the use of black humor.The source of Al-Maghut's black humor is his social thought, which is rooted in bitter truths such as poverty, imprisonment, displacement, lack of freedom, and the incompetence of the rulers. In so doing, humors of Al-Maghout is full of biting descriptions that initially make the audience laugh, but at the same time, it brings deep sadness to the heart. The purpose of this study is to investigate the kinds of tricks used by Al-Maghout in black humor of "Al-Badawi Al-Ahmar”. To answer this main research question, the researcher employed content analysis method. The present study suggests that Al-Maghut used the techniques of symmetry, Irony, surprise, magnification, miniaturization, paradox, personification, metonymy, and sarcasm from which surprise and metonymy have been the most widely used in this work. Keywords: Muhammad Al-Maghut, Al-Badawi Al-Ahmar, Black Humor, Tricks of Satirist. 1-Introduction Humor is one type of literature that the literary elites consider it in their works. In fact, humor is one of the most pleasing branches of lyrical literature that is sometimes used to create cheerfulness and laughter while expressing critiques and shortcomings at some other point of time. One turns to humor when refrains from talking seriously. Human being is capable to get rid of social constraints by the means of humor and sarcasm. Poets and writers have sometimes created valuable themes in their poems and writings with humorous expressions. They have resorted to humor for a variety of reasons, such as relieving themselves of stress, expressing social problems, and criticizing weaknesses and anomalies by making ambiguous, implicit, funny, and sometimes biting remarks. Black humor as one of the subsets of satire and comedy has less humorous aspect than the other types wherein crying is preferred to laughter.The main subject of black humor is biting and mocking critiques on serious, sad and horrible issues (Mohammadi & Taslimi Jahromi, 2016: 404-427). Muhammad Al-Maghout is one of the most prominent and well-known satirists in the Arab world, especially in Syria. The political stifling of Al-Maghout's life and the fact that he was unable to express his views openly led him to turn to humor, especially black humor. His main goal is to recount the chaos realities of Syrian society and other Arab countries. As a social critic, he has used humorous language to criticize the current state of the Arab world, especially Palestine, and the issues that he has faced along with the people of his country and without any shadow of doubt, addressing these issues has made his humor bitter and dark. Considering that no independent work has been written about black humor in Arabic literature, while at the same time Muhammad Al-Maghout's poetry book of "AL-BADAWI AL-AHMAR" is full of poems in this field, the attempts have been made in this article to examine the poems to discover the tricks used in his black humor. This article tries to answer the following questions that 1. What humorous tricks did Muhammad Maghout use in "Al-Badawi Al-Ahmar"? and 2. What humorous techniques are frequent in "Al-Badawi Al-Ahmar"? Why? 2-Research Methodology In this research drawn upon the objectives and questions raised, the content analysis method has been used through library and documentary instruments. The researcher first collects the relevant materials, selects the poems in the book by sampling method, and finally analyzes the techniques used in the poems. Content analysis is in fact an objective, principled and quantitative research technique for interpreting and analyzing content. The basic framework of content analysis is to place the components of a text (words, sentences, paragraphs and the like in terms of selected units) in predetermined categories "(Barden, 1996: 29). 3-Discussion Black humor “addresses morbid and grotesque situations, and often deals with suffering, apprehension, disease, war and death. The purpose of black humor is to move and upset the readers or spectators in such way that makes them laugh at suffering, death and horrific events; black humor is sometimes called black comedy or bitter comedy "(Mir Sadeghi, 1998: 302). It should be noted that the content approach of black humor is different in various societies. Due to the political and social contexts, black humor is used in Western stories about death, suicide, crime, racism, murder and violence, and the like, while in Persian fiction about issues such as political oppression, poverty and famine, fear, the rank of the lower class, Illness, anonymity and mental degeneration (Mohammadi & Taslimi Jahromi, 2016: 411-426). Muhammad Al-Maghout has used bitter humor to criticize and challenge the political and social unrest of the Arab and Syrian communities. He has used various humorous techniques to achieve his goal. For example, irony is one of the techniques of humor that has four meanings. Al-Maghout has used two of its meanings in contradictory situation and humorous irony. Paradox is another technique he employed in "Al-Badawi Al-Ahmar". Maghout has paid special attention to the surprise technique and has used it in many cases. Symmetry is one of the techniques based upon the use of language. One of the types of this technique is symmetry with two phrases or sentences that can be seen in Al-Maghout's poetry. In some of Maghout's poems, personification as another figure of speech created humorous situations illustrating the social and political conflicts in the society, after which the poet's humor also becomes bitter. In "Al-Badawi Al-Ahmar", examples from sarcasm is also visible. Al-Maghout has used a lot from the sarcasm as a figures of speech. He has paid special attention to the two tricks of magnification, and miniaturization. In a poem, he humiliated the state officials by comparing them to Shangool and Mangool (Two cartoon Figures). Such comparisons with animals is another way of miniaturizing. Muhammad Al-Maghout has also used this method. The magnification technique is divided into two types: one is the size of the objects and the other is their value. Maghout has used both techniques in his black humor. 4-Conclusion The famous Syrian writer, Mohammad Maghout finds black humor the most effective means of expressing the disorders and anomalies of his time. He is a realist poet who considers his main goal to be the retelling of the abnormal reality of society. His humorous content approach in the book "Al-Badawi Al-Ahmar" is social and political problems such as poverty, imprisonment, lack of freedom, incompetence of rulers, foreign interference. The most important humorous techniques used in "Al-Badawi Al-Ahmar" are respectively surprise, metonymy, sarcasm, personification, magnification, miniaturization, paradox, and irony which surprise have been the most widely used technique in this work.The reason for this can be seen in creating a sudden surprise, attracting the audience's attention and then calling him to wake up and see the facts in their true form. 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