Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection
General
Classical Sources
Arabic Poetry
General
(Jahiliyah [Pre-Islamic Arabia]
& Early Islam)
---Antara
& 
--- Ablah
- Farazdaq, ca. 641-ca. 728
- Abu l-Hasan al-Husri (d. 1095)
- Majnun Layla [a.k.a Qays Ibn al-Mulawwah]
Modern
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- 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]
- Ahmad Matar
- Shir Siyasi
- LafitatNovelist Abd al-Rahman Munif dies
- MuZaffar al-Nawwab
- Nizar Qabbani
- Sayyid Qutb
- Amin al-Rayhani [Ameen Rihani]
- Ahmad Shawqi
- Naguib Surur
- Fadwa Tuqan
- Mayy Ziyadah [May Zeyadeh]
- Arabian Gulf's Poetry
Fiction & other Lit. Genres
- Bint al-Shatt
- Haydar Haydar
- Najib Mahfuz
- Naguib Mahfouz
- NOBEL LECTURE, December 8, 1988 by NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
(Read at the Swedish Academy by Mr. Mohammed Salmawy (first in Arabic, then in
English)
- Ninetieth birthday: Interviews, Essays, etc.
---------PT. 1 (al-Hayat 12/5/2001) ARABIC--[PDF]
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2 (al-Hayat 12/5/2001) ARABIC--[PDF]
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3 (al-Hayat 12/5/2001) ARABIC--[PDF]
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3 (al-Hayat 12/5/2001) ARABIC--[PDF]
- 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)
- Ali Salim
- Muhammad Shukri
- Ibrahim, Sun'allah
- Criticism/Interpretation
Other
- CHILDREN OF AL-MAHJAR: ARAB AMERICAN
LITERATURE SPANS A CENTURY By Elmaz Abinader
- Arab-American Writers, Uneasy in Two Worlds
(February 19, 2003, The New York Times Company)
- Discovering Arabic
Fiction (Steve Infantino)
- Abu Firas al-Hamdani
- Breathing Life Into Arab Folklore of a Golden Past
[Storyteller - Hakawati] (NYT, September 16, 1999)
- Hidden Lives of Oil [Abdelrahman Munif]
- Hakawati of Damascus Abu Shadi Recalls the Old Days
(al-Hayat, 12 Dec., 2000, p. 21)
- 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 Arab Writers Union / Ittihad
al-Kuttab al-Arab (Dimashq)
- The Popular Arabic
Literature of the Jews
- CIA gets into Saddam's head through a novel ['Zabibah
wal Malik'' (''Zabibah and the King'')] (Arabia on Line, May 26, 2001)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Arabesques
International Cultural Review
- Arabic
Literature in Africa PDF
- Desert of Memory [PAUL BOWLES]
- Arabic
Literature-Links
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