An attractive pocket-sized manuscript that I recently acquired reflects a long tradition to recite the liturgical poem “Mi Kamocha, Ve’en Kamocha” of Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141) in Adar. This ...
Translator's note: Nizar Qabbani was the most popular and beloved Arab poet of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born in Damascus in 1923. He started out as a romantic poet, with daring ...
A 12th-century poem dedicated to Saladin and a 15th-century chronicle provide new independent testimonies about the stellar explosions of the years 1006 and 1181, crucial for modern astrophysics. In a ...
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My brother’s illness made me a “sickle cell warrior” The family murder that launched our campaign Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh was confined to a deserted stable for having banned books in his possession ...
Editors’ Note: This essay is one of a group of essays on Arab American poetry. Read the rest here. On October 10, 2002, I submitted the following as part of a required essay for my undergraduate ...
Eight years ago, Syrian poet Adonis, who wrote My Loneliness Is a Garden, wandered through the streets of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, and caught the scent of osmanthus blossoms. He described the ...
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