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Egyptian & Arab authors on the Web : Authors A to Z
- For non-Arabic references
The Database of Arabic Literature in Western Research (DAL) is an easy-to-use, searchable, internet-based bibliographic database of Arabic literature in western research. Search Keyword and other Browse links on the left hand bar, as well as Simple Search and Advanced Search, provide easy access to detailed, annotated and content-enriched bibliographic records of books, articles, chapters of books and reviews written in English since the movement of translation and commentary of Arabic literary texts first began in the West.”
- Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations in English on Arabic-Western Literary Relations, 1902-1997
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- Journals of the Arab Writers Union
- al-Warraq A depositary of classical Arab works in literature, history, fiqh, etc. Membership is required to access the library. It posts a list of the “Most read works” which is headed by A Thousand and One Nights.
- Arabic Short Story / Jubayr Milayhan. It regularly presents contributions and gives a record of readers and also comments on the short story. Contributions come especially from Egypt, Syria and Iraq as well as Saudi Arabia.
- Arabic literature @ Britannica Online
- al-Rabitah
al-Qalamiyah (The Pen Bond)
- The Role of Women in Arabic Literature
- Arabic Literature (in English)
- Bibliographie Monde arabe
- al-Âdâb - Thematical archive 1953 عام نشأت الآداب مجلة
- Majallat ash-shu'arâ' / The Palestinian House of Poetry
- Majallat al-aqwâs / The Palestinian House of Poetry
- ENGLISH
الشعر الفصيح | الشعر العامي | أدباء العرب | الشعر العالمي | الديوان الصوتي |
- kikah = كيكا " Kikah is an independent electronic cultural journal founded by the Iraqi writer Samuel Shimon in March 2003. Its primary objective is to encourage the dissemination of new writing from the Arab world, as well as translations from world literature."
- Nusûs 'irâqiyya journal of the Iraqi writer (al-Kâtib al-'irâqî)
- La rivista di Arablit (
Publisher: Roma : Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino. Start Year: 2011 Frequency: Semi-annually Language: Italian
ISSN: 2239-4168)
Classical Sources
Arabic Poetry
(Jahiliyah [Pre-Islamic Arabia]
& Early Islam)
---Antara
& 
--- Ablah
Modern
- Abou-Al-kacem El-chebbi الشابيالقاسمأبو
- Adunis [a.k.a Ali Ahmad Said]
- ADONIS
- Take me to God
- "Beyond the East/West: Towards a Culture of the
Future" Delivered Wednesday, May 9, 2001 at Dartmouth College.
- From Static Harmony
to Dynamic Contradiction: The Contradictory Visions of the Unified but not
Unitarian Self: A Contradictory Study of Adonis.
- On Adonis -- A Poet Responds, Some Further Remarks on
Arabic Poetry / by Etel Adnan
- Adonis Indicts Arabic Poetry, Past and Present /
By Elie Chalala
- An Arab Poet Who Dares to Differ (The New York
Times, July 13, 2002)
- Tahiyyah ila Baghdad = A Salute to Baghdad
(AL-Quds al-Arabi, 1 April 2003, p.1)
- Nass Ghayr Manshur 'An Ziyarah Wahidah ila Baghdad,
1969 (al-Hayat 5/15/2003: p. 12 [PDF])
- Syrian Poet Adonis Seen as Nobel Prize Frontrunner
(By REUTERS Filed at 11:33 a.m. ET, October 1, 2003 )
- Adonis & Beirut / al-Hayat, Saturday, November
08, 2003, p. 16 [PDF-ARABIC]
- Adonis in Tunisia: Interviews to La Presse & al-Sabah newspapers
- The Arab Spring and Adunis' Revolution, in Context
- Mahmud Darweesh *محمود, درويش*
- Khalil Gibran
جبران خليل جبران
- Ahmad Matar
- Shir Siyasi
- LafitatNovelist Abd al-Rahman Munif dies
- MuZaffar al-Nawwab
- Nizar Qabbani
- Sayyab السيّاب
- Sayyid Qutb
- Ahmad Shawqi
- Naguib Surur
- Fadwa Tuqan
- Mayy Ziyadah [May Zeyadeh]
- Arabian Gulf's Poetry
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Fiction & other Lit. Genres
- Bint al-Shatt
- Haydar Haydar
- Suhayl Idris
- Abdo Khal
['Abduh Khāl]
- Najib Mahfuz
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Naguib Mahfouz, a Bibliography: Arabic, English, French.
- A Brief Guide to Naguib Mahfouz and Modern Arabic Prose
- NOBEL LECTURE, December 8, 1988 by NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
(Read at the Swedish Academy by Mr. Mohammed Salmawy (first in Arabic, then in
English)
- Naguib Mahfouz - Bibliography (nobelprize.org)
- Egypt's Revolution Foreseen in Fiction : "BEFORE THE THRONE" BY NAGUIB MAHFOUZ / Raymond Stock (Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 10, 2011).
- Ninetieth birthday: Interviews, Essays, etc.
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- Naguib Mahfouz / The AUC Library
- Cruelty of memory : To have taken history not only
seriously but also literally is the central achievement of Mahfouz's work,
argues Edward Said (Al-Ahram Weekly Online,13 - 19 December 2001, Issue
No.564)
- A Cairo Storyteller With Time to Dream (The New
York Times, September 16, 2002)
- Lexical
Cohesion in the Translated Novels of Naguib Mahfouz: the Evidence from The
Thief and the Dogs.
- Abd al-Rahman Munif
- Novelist Abd al-Rahman Munif dies
- Abd al-Rahman Munif (misc. essays about him) /
al-Hayat, Saturday, 25 January, 2004, p. 16 [PDF-ARABIC]
- Abd al-Rahman Munif fi al-Riwayah al-Arabiyah /
Antwan Al-Maqdisi, al-Hayat, 26 January, 2004, p. 16 [PDF-ARABIC]
- Farewell to Munif A Patriarch of Arab Literature
By TARIQ ALI (January 31 / February 1, 2004, CounterPunch)
- Ameen Fares Rihani [Amin al-Rayhani]
- Ali Salim
- Muhammad Shukri
- Ibrahim, Sun'allah
- Criticism/Interpretation
Other
- CHILDREN OF AL-MAHJAR: ARAB AMERICAN
LITERATURE SPANS A CENTURY / By Elmaz
- AbinaderArab-American Literature--
Alphabetical List of Links by Subject & Selected List of Arab-American Authors
- Arab-American Writers, Uneasy in Two Worlds
(February 19, 2003, The New York Times Company)
- Abu Firas al-Hamdani
- al-Âdâb - Thematical archive 1953 عام نشأت الآداب مجلة
- Arabic Language Resources
- Iraq Poetry: Iraq Story
- Hidden Lives of Oil [Abdelrahman Munif]
- Hakawati of Damascus Abu Shadi Recalls the Old Days
(al-Hayat, 12 Dec., 2000, p. 21)
- Iraq Literary Review
- The Role of Women in Arabic Literature
- Littérature algérienne
- The evolution of Arabic-language Algerian novels since
1970
- Fultir, Rajul al-Hurriyah [Voltaire, A Man of
Freedom] (an essay by Jamal Abd al Nasir, the late Egyptian President when
he was a Student)
- Another Attack on academic freedom
- Said 'Aql ... in the Knesset In: al-Hayat, 1 July
2001, p. 17. (Arabic-PDF)
- Muhammad Zafzaf. Interview in Al-Hayat, 7/17/2001:
p. 16
- Muhammad Shukri. Interview in Al-Hayat, 10/5/2001:
p. 16
- Sheikh
Nefzaoui: The Perfumed Garden -- Translated by Sir Richard Burton
- The Popular Arabic
Literature of the Jews
- Another side of Saddam - the shy romantic novelist
['Zabibah wal Malik'' (''Zabibah and the King'')]
(Brian Whitaker, Saturday May 26, 2001 The Guardian)
- "Qal'ah al-Hasinah" ["The Fortified
Citadel" / attributed to Saddam Husein In: al-Hayat, 16 Dec. 2001, p.
5. (Arabic-PDF)
- Literary Translation from Arabic into English in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1990 – 2010"
- Arabic Arabic Poetry Encyclopedia
- Edited from the void The slew
of cultural magazines crowding newsstands and bookstores offers a deceptive
picture of Egypt's publishing scene. Rania Khallaf follows the plight of the
Egyptian literary magazine (Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 2 - 8 August 2001, Issue
No.545)
- Translation from Arabic into English in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1990 – 2010
- Fondamentalisme et libertés littéraires dans le monde arabe
- Libya: Libyan Arts, Music and
Literature
- Omar Abu al-qasim al-Kekkli
[Selections-- Short stories]
- Echoes of Sin City The dreamscape that drew Paul
Bowles to Tangier is still here (NYT, October 18, 1998)
- Calligraphy Qalam
- As the Arabs Say
- Arab World Books
- Lowell Thomas and Lawrence of Arabia: Making a Legend - Creating History
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