"It’s not quite the same as a purely autobiographical text, but it’s almost more interesting for that. They’re more like mini-essays. I do think that the work, for that reason, can be read by people who aren’t interested in seventeenth-century Morocco."
New: Library of Arabic Literature Podcast Channel
Current discussions include talks with Bilal Orfali on wise fools, Maurice Pomerantz on the magic of words, and Marcel Kurpershoek on Nabati and classical poetries.
‘Antarah’s ‘War Songs’ Makes NTA Longlist
This is the second Library of Arabic Literature title to make an NTA longlist.
For Your Thursday Afternoon: (Arab and) Arabic Poetry
Adonis is still working on poetry, but next---his memoirs.
