Takhyil is a term from Arabic poetics denoting the evocation of images. It has a broad spectrum of connotations throughout classical philosophical poetics and rhetoric, and it is closely linked to the Greek concept of phantasia. This text is a collection of annotated translation…
Nasīb ʿArīḍa (1887–1946) was a Mahjar poet, journalist, and publisher associated with al-Rābiṭa al-Qalamiyya, the “Pen Association,” a circle of Arab writers in New York led by Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān. A native of Homs, Syria, ʿArīḍa studied at the local Russian school and later at…
Ṣalāḥ Abd al-Ṣabūr (1931–81) was an influential Egyptian poet and pioneering practitioner of Arabic “free verse” (al-shiʿr al-ḥurr) . Born and raised in the delta town of Zaqāzīq, he read widely as a child and, as a teenager, briefly associated himself with the Muslim Brotherhoo…