The Council of Arabic and Islamic Studies is kicking off September with its bi-annual Arabic Film and Poetry Series, a public forum that combats the stigma associated with Islam by showing the ...

A Georgetown University professor has received a prestigious honor for her work in the field of classical Arabic poetry. Suzanne Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic ...

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 of ...

Dr Mahmoud al-Ashiri, an Associate Professor of Arabic at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), has recently published a new Arabic language book titled Poetry as Narrative: A Study in the Text ...

Arabic poetry will be the focus of a lecture presented at HopeCollege on Tuesday, Nov. 16. Dr. Majd Al-Mallah of Grand Valley State University will present "Tamim b. al-Mu'izz and the Formation of ...

The daughter of the caliph eventually turned against Ibn Zaydun, and he was exiled, Sells said. “You can feel the exile in his poetry as well as the longing and love,” he said. Sells read aloud ...

Arabic poetry still attracts large audiences in the prominent, public spaces throughout the Arab world. “Emerging in the second half of the 20th century in Iraq, contemporary Arabic poetry quickly ...

Mattawa, a poet-translator of Arabic poetry, will receive a $625,000, no-strings-attached stipend paid out over the next five years. He said he plans to use the money to further his translations ...

From Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, which will be published next month by City Lights. Translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khaled al-Hilli. The gifts… From Strangers in Light ...