Banu Sasan

From ArabLit Quarterly, Poetry ALQ: Crime, Banu Sasan, Brad Fox, summer reads

Summer Reads: ‘The Song of the Banu Sasan’

June 28, 2023

This summer, we will run select pieces from summer issues of ArabLit Quarterly. This excerpt from a tenth-century poem by Abu Dulaf, translated by Brad Fox, ran in the summer 2020 CRIME issue of the magazine.

From ArabLit Quarterly Abu Dulaf, ALQ: Crime, Banu Sasan, Brad Fox

From ALQ’s Crime Issue: Meet the Banu Sasan

July 9, 2020

Brad Fox called in from lockdown in Peru to read from — and discuss — his translation (or recovery? or adaptation?) of Abu Dulaf’s “Song of the Banu Sasan.”