With its unique context, skillful execution, and monumental calling, Palestinian literature is an inspiring and fertile ground for study. In my own Arabic courses, it is by far the most popular subject. This term, the…
A recent poetry collection intriguingly titled ʿInd al-thamānīn badaʾt shiʿrī (“At eighty, I Began My Poetry”) by litterateur, senior Azhari Shaykh, theologian, and member of the Supreme Council of Scholars, Ḥasan al-Shāfiʿī (b. 1930), contains…
Despite being influenced by both global and local conditions, there are noticeable phenomena characterizing the landscape of Muslim media in the Arab region – and especially Egypt – post-Arab Spring. Within the global context, there…