Dr. Geert Jan van Gelder, who recently translated and edited the Library of Arabic Literature collection Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology, will be speaking in Surrey, B.C. on March 14 about his latest project, al-Ma’ari’s The Epistle of Forgiveness: From the… Read More ›
Syracuse University Press recently released Emily Selove’s translation of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Selections from the Art of Party-crashing in Medieval Iraq. She answered a few questions about the project: ArabLit: What brought you to this project? Why this particular text (in the whole world of… Read More ›
In his introduction to the new Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology, Geert Jan Van Gelder writes skeptically that, “in a time when the growing interest in the Arab world is matched only by ignorance of its literary heritage, translations… Read More ›
