Huda J. Fakhreddine is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her work focuses on modernist movements or trends in Arabic poetry and their relationship to the Arabic literary tradition. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (2021). She is the co-translator of Lighthouse for the Drowning (2017), The Sky That Denied Me (2020), and Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selections from Salim Barakat (2021). She is the Coeditor-in-Chief of Middle Eastern Literatures and an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych is the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, USA. She is a specialist in Classical Arabic poetry. Her books include: Ab Tammm and the Poetics of the 'Abbsid Age (1991); The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual (1993, paperback 2011); The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode (2002); The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muammad (2010) and The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow : Late Abbsid Poetics in Abal-Al al-Mäarr's Saq al-Zand and Luzm M L Yalzam (2023). She serves as Executive Editor of the Brill Studies in Middle East Literatures monograph series.

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Arabic Poetry in Late Antiquity: The Riyya of Imru al-Qays

Pamela Klasova

Parody and the Creation of the Mudath Ghazal

Ahmad Almallah

Description of Architecture in Classical Arabic Poetry from the Perspective of Interarts Studies

Akiko Sumi

Andalus Heterodoxy and Colloquial Arabic Poetry: "Zajal 145" by Ibn Quzmn (d. AH 555 / AD 1160)

James T. Monroe

Andalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic Tradition

Ross Brann

Wa-mat il dhka al-maqmi wulu:

Poetry, Performance and the Prophet in the Andalusian Music Tradition of Morocco

Carl Davila

Ibn Khams and the Poetics of Nostalgia in the Tilimsniyyt (Poems on Tlemcen)

Nizar F. Hermes

The Homeland at the Threshold of World Literature

Yaseen Noorani

Kab ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Märf al-Ruf's Poetry

C. Ceyhun Arslan

Lewis Awad Breaks Poetry's Back in Plutoland (1947)

Levi Thompson

The älk Poets of Modern Iraq: The Vagabonds usayn Mardn and Jn Damm

Suneela Mubayi

Cinematography in Modern Arabic Poetry: Redefining the Philosophy and Dynamics of Poetic Imagery

Sayed Elsisi

Disturbing Vision: Zarq al-Yamma and Semiotics of Denial in Modern and Contemporary Arabic Poetry

Clarissa Burt

The Poet as Palm Tree: Muammad al-Thubayt and the Reimagining of Saudi Identity

Hatem Alzahrani