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.
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 ...
Starting in 2014, the Arabic Film & Poetry Series, co-sponsored by the ASU Council for Arabic and Islamic Studies and the University's Arabic Studies Program, has helped to expand student knowledge on ...
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 ...
Waed Athamneh is a specialist in Arabic literature. Her work focuses on modern Arabic literature and 20th-century Arab politics. Her book on the major literary movements and new directions in modern ...
KUWAIT, March 28 (KUNA) -- Two Arab literary critics agreed Monday that the late Iraqi poet Bader Shaker Al-Sayyab (1926-1964) left revolutionary impacts on the modern Arabic poetry. In their ...
BEIRUT: Zajal, an old form of improvised Arabic poetry that enjoyed its heyday in Lebanon before the 1975-1990 civil war, is making a tentative comeback with thousands of fans on Facebook and YouTube.