Tag West meets East
This is the Kabba. Located in Mecca it is believed to house one of Antarah’s poems Antarah ibn shaddad was a pre-Islamic poet whose mother was an Ethiopian slave and father was of the ancient Arab tribe the Banu Abs…. Continue Reading →
I decided to do my journal project on the structure of a typical qasidah and broke it up into the three sections to make it clear to a reader who is not familiar with Arabic poetry. While stylistically it is… Continue Reading →
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 →
1001 Nights 1001 Nights is a collection of folk tales written and released during the Islamic Gold Age. This compilation of stories is organized under the following narrative: Scorned by his unfaithful wife, the king of the empire, Shahryar, was… Continue Reading →
Arabian Nights: Women in Power and Cross - Cultural Attitudes
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