In the late 1960s, Jaroslav Stetkevych, a scholar of Arabic literature, delivered a lecture to a group of academics of the Middle East at St Antony’s College, Oxford. While not excluding himself from ...

SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: A cancelled Hollywood project prompted a professor at Cambridge University in England to translate the works of a legendary pre-Islamic Arab poet into modern English.

Across the Arab world, poetry is considered to be one of the highest art forms, with a heritage stretching back to the pre-Islamic era, and the epic odes of Imru al-Qais and Antarah ibn Shaddad.

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

In the last 50 years, Denys Johnson-Davies and Salma Khadra Jayyusi have done more than anyone else to bring contemporary Arabic literature to the English-reading public. Among the many similarities ...

When arriving at ASU for the first time, it's hard to believe how much opportunity is really before you. We tend to get caught up in our own individual work and study circles. As we begin to make and ...

Even though the Oscars are over, there is still time to catch one last nominee thanks to the Arabic Film and Poetry Series. The ASU Council for Arabic and Islamic Studies will be hosting a screening ...

The new series will deal with topics such as glory, harmony, pride, loyalty, night, rain, ruins, tolerance and other topics, and will be released in stages, starting with 30 subjects that will be ...

U-M Professor Khaled Mattawa said he will use the grant to expand his Arabic poetry translations. Khaled Mattawa will receive a %24625%2C000%2C no-strings-attached ...