Category: classics
On the Anniversary of Jurji Zaydan’s Birth, that Bad Bitch Shajar al-Dur and 5 More
On Bringing the Mu‘allaqāt into English: ‘There’s Such a Divide That Needs To Be Crossed by the Translator’
Kareem James Abu-Zeid Wins NEA Translation Fellowship To Support Retranslation of ‘Hanging Poems’
On Teaching with Classical Arabic Texts That ‘Capture a Sense of Marvel, Wonder, Humor, And, Above All, Adventure’
When Arabophones Weren’t Arabs: Ibn Qutaybah and Identity Formation During the Early Period of Islam
‘Whose Face is Huge and Wears a Hideous Expression’: On David Larsen’s Translation of ‘Names of the Lion’
Friday Finds: Recipes from ‘Scents and Flavors’
Friday Finds: ‘On Finding Music in al-Maʿarrī’s Poetry’
Meme-Makers, Puzzle Poems, and the Great Unwashed: Humphrey Davies on ‘Brains Confounded’ and ‘Risible Rhymes’
Translating the Greeks into Arabic by Defending the ‘Love of Wisdom’
