Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection
General
Classical Sources
Arabic Poetry
General
(Jahiliyah [Pre-Islamic Arabia]
& Early Islam)
---Antara
& 
--- Ablah
- Farazdaq, ca. 641-ca. 728
- Abu l-Hasan al-Husri (d. 1095)
- Majnun Layla [a.k.a Qays Ibn al-Mulawwah]
Modern
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- Adunis [a.k.a Ali Ahmad Said]
- Features a biography, a
poetry collection, and photos
- A life on public
view / By David Tresilian Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 11 - 17 January 2001 Issue
No.516
- Songs of Mihyar the
Damamscene
- "Beyond
the East/West: Towards a Culture of the Future" Delivered Wednesday,
May 9, 2001 at Dartmouth College.
- From Static Harmony to Dynamic
Contradiction: The Contradictory Visions of the Unified but not Unitarian Self:
A Contradictory Study of Adonis.
- On Adonis -- A
Poet Responds, Some Further Remarks on Arabic Poetry / by Etel Adnan
- Adonis Indicts
Arabic Poetry, Past and Present / By Elie Chalala
- An Arab Poet
Who Dares to Differ
- Tahiyyah ila Baghdad = A Salute to Baghdad
(AL-Quds al-Arabi, 1 April 2003, p.1)
- Nass Ghayr Manshur 'An Ziyarah Wahidah ila Baghdad,
1969 (al-Hayat 5/15/2003: p. 12 [PDF])
- Syrian Poet
Adonis Seen as Nobel Prize Frontrunner (BBC, October 1, 2003 )
- Ahmad Matar
- Shir Siyasi
- LafitatNovelist Abd al-Rahman Munif dies
- MuZaffar al-Nawwab
- Ahmad Fuad Najm [Ahmed Fouad Negm]
- Nizar Qabbani
- Sayyid Qutb
- Amin al-Rayhani [Ameen Rihani]
- Ahmad Shawqi
- Naguib Surur
- Fadwa Tuqan
- Mayy Ziyadah [May Zeyadeh]
- Arabian Gulf's Poetry
Fiction & other Lit. Genres
- Bint al-Shatt
- Haydar Haydar
- Najib Mahfuz
- Ali Salim
- Muhammad Shukri
- Ibrahim, Sun'allah
- Criticism/Interpretation
Other
- Discovering Arabic
Fiction (Steve Infantino)
- Best
of the Web - Arabic literature on the Internet
- Abu Firas al-Hamdani
- Hidden Lives of Oil [Abdelrahman Munif]
- Hakawati of Damascus Abu Shadi Recalls the Old Days
(al-Hayat, 12 Dec., 2000, p. 21)
- The Role of Women in Arabic Literature
- Littérature algérienne
- The evolution of Arabic-language Algerian novels since
1970
- Fultir, Rajul al-Hurriyah [Voltaire, A Man of
Freedom] (an essay by Jamal Abd al Nasir, the late Egyptian President when
he was a Student)
- Another Attack on academic freedom
- Said 'Aql ... in the Knesset In: al-Hayat, 1 July 2001, p. 17.
- Muhammad Zafzaf. Interview in Al-Hayat, 7/17/2001: p. 16
- Muhammad Shukri. Interview in Al-Hayat, 10/5/2001: p. 16
- Sheikh
Nefzaoui: The Perfumed Garden -- Translated by Sir Richard Burton
- The Arab Writers Union / Ittihad
al-Kuttab al-Arab (Dimashq)
- The Popular Arabic
Literature of the Jews
- CIA gets into Saddam's head through a novel ['Zabibah wal Malik''
(''Zabibah and the King'')] (Arabia on Line, May 26, 2001)
- Another side of Saddam - the shy romantic novelist ['Zabibah wal Malik''
(''Zabibah and the King'')]
(Brian Whitaker, Saturday May 26, 2001 The Guardian)
- "Qal'ah al-Hasinah" ["The Fortified Citadel" /
attributed to Saddam Husein In: al-Hayat, 16 Dec. 2001, p. 5.
- Edited from the void The slew of cultural magazines
crowding newsstands and bookstores offers a deceptive picture of Egypt's
publishing scene. Rania Khallaf follows the plight of the Egyptian literary
magazine (Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 2 - 8 August 2001, Issue No.545)
- Libya: Libyan Arts, Music and
Literature
- Omar Abu al-qasim al-Kekkli
[Selections-- Short stories]
- Echoes of Sin City The dreamscape that drew Paul Bowles to Tangier is still
here (NYT, October 18, 1998)
- Arabic Literature in Africa
- Arabic
Literature-Links
- The Library of
Alexandria
- The Library of Alexandria
/ electronic books in image format
Middle East & Islamic Studies,
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast
Ali Houissa, The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer. 
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