Literature written in the Arabic language has a rich history, stretching back more than 15 centuries across a complex geography that exceeds today's national borders. Unsurprisingly, it has had a ...

“ARABIC literature is the enduring monument of a civilisation, not of a people. Its contributors were men of the most varied ethnic origins,” wrote H. A. R. Gibb in his Arabic Literature: An ...

In the late 1960s, Jaroslav Stetkevych, a scholar of Arabic literature, delivered a lecture to a group of academics of the Middle East at St Antony’s College, Oxford. While not excluding himself from ...

For much of the 20th century, Arabic novels (especially ones written by women) were deprived of opportunities for critique on the global literary stage due to limited translation. Today, translated ...

This year’s shortlist for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation reveals the variety of the Arabic works now being translated into English Recent years have seen more and more ...