Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (1926-1964) was an extremely influential Iraqi poet and a pioneer in free-verse poetry. After studying in Baghdad, he worked as a teacher, then joined the Iraqi Communist Party. Sayyab spent nine years with the party before becoming… Continue Reading →
Arabian Nights: Women in Power and Cross - Cultural Attitudes Women and Power 
The Commodification and Confinement of Women as Reflected in One Thousand and One Nights 
God and Poetry: Which is True Spirituality? 
Hamilton and Buluqiya in the Quest for Immortality 
Experiences in Germany through the Lens of an American, Ibn Fadlan Style 
Unmasking the Depictions of Harlots, Whores, Sinners and "Middle Eastern" Women 
Dangerous Women: Gender Themes in One Thousand and One Nights and the Odyssey 
My Experience with Race Through the Prose of Antarah Ibn Shaddad 
The Qasidah of our Youth: A Poem of the Past 
A Nomad’s Home: Travel, Home, and Modern Constructions of Arab Identity 
On Spiders and Mercy 
Symbolism of Rain in Sayyab's "Rain Song" and Western Songs About Rain 
The Function of the Classic Hero Cross-Culturally 
Re-creating Ancient Myth in a Modern World: Women in Television 
The Great Flood: Comparing Norse and Arabic Myth Today 
1001 Nights and Disney: The Three Princes and the Princess of Nouronnihar and Brave 
“رحلتي”: Being Visibly the “Other” Inspired by Ibn Battuta’s The Travels and Fatema Mernissi’s Scheherazade Goes West
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