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.

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Ph.D., has a very rare specialty. She is Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University, and ...

Across the Arab world, poetry is considered to be one of the highest art forms, with a heritage stretching back to the pre-Islamic era, and the epic odes of Imru al-Qais and Antarah ibn Shaddad.

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 ...

For thousands of years melodic, well-proportioned rhymed verses recorded battles, lifestyle, wisdom and feelings of the people in the region, expanding the role of Arabic poetry far beyond the borders ...

Ask the average Iranian about the persons they most admire and you are likely to hear a list of poets, from Ferdowsi and Saadi centuries ago to Iraj Mirza and Sohrab Sepehri more recently. For an ...

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 ...

Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Arabic and to the culture of Arabic-speaking regions. This course meets three (3) hours per week in the classroom and requires at least one ...

Doha, Qatar: The Katara Cultural Village Foundation has announced the opening of nominations for the fifth edition of the Katara Prize for Arabic Poetry, dedicated to the Mothers of the Believers (may ...