The theme of love persists throughout Arabic poetry and literature. Professor Michael Sells discussed that theme on Tuesday, paying particular attention to the poetry of Ibn Zaydun and Ibn al-‘Arabi.

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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Peter Cole, a Jewish poet, translator and publisher, received a ...

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 ...

After eating Arab cuisine and listening to musician Ronnie Malley play the oud on stage, Northwestern’s Middle Eastern and North African Student Association shared Arabic-based poems with each other ...

"Arabic literature has a distinguished tradition of bacchanals but none are so consistently entertaining, explicit or iconoclastic as those of Abu Nuwas al-Hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami (c. 756 - c. 815), ...

In collaboration with FotoFest and the Arab American Cultural and Community Center, celebrated poet Fady Joudah and renowned musician Rahim AlHaj present an evening of Arab poetry and oud music. Fady ...

In an underground reservoir built 1,233 years ago in a city that saw sectarian riots last year, visitors hear a beguiling musical composition that combines Arab love songs with Hebrew poetry. By ...

Mahmoud Darwish, a celebrated Palestinian poet, transformed personal pain from displacement and conflict into universal ...