Literatures and Cultures
Kimpel Hall,
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: 479.575.2951
Fax: 479.575.6795
Email the department:
flan01@uark.edu
Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
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Arabic Language Faculty
Adnan Haydar
Publications
Articles
- "The Muallaqa of Imru' al-Qays: Its Structure and Meaning, I", Edebiyat 2.2 (1977), pp. 227-261.
- "The Muallaqa of Imru' al-Qays: Its Structure and Meaning, II," Edebiyat 3.1 (1978), pp. 51-82.
- Co-author. "Two Interpretations of Kahlil Hawi's 'The Cave'," Edebiyat 3.2 (1979), pp. 157-171.
- "What is Modern about Modern Arabic Poetry?", al-Arabiyya 14 (1981), pp. 51-58.
- "Kahlil Hawi," Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, 2nd. ed. (1982), Volume 2, 0. 344.
- "Twentieth Century Lebanese Literature," Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, 2nd ed. (1992), Vol. 3, pp. 32-35.
- "Lebanese Literature in French," Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, 2nd edition (1982), Vol.3, pp. 35-36.
- Co-author. "Excerpts from Muzaffar al-Nawwab's Night Strings: The Cassette as Samizdat," Minnesota Review 26 (Spring 1986) pp. 44-55.
- Co-author. "Colloquial Gender Neutralization in the Cardinal Numbers of Hebrew and Eastern Arabic," al-Arabiyya 19 (1986), pp. 19-28.
- "The Development of Lebanese Zajal: Genre, Meter, and Verbal Duel," Oral Tradition Fall 1989, pp. 159-212.
- Co-author. "Making Mihyar: The Familiarization of Adunis's Knight of Strange Works," Literature East West, 4:1 and 2, Spring 1988), pp. 79-88.
- "Ma al-Hadith fi al-Shir al-hadith," Al-Naqid- Sept September 1990, pp.48-51.
-"Iliyya Abu Madi," The Encyclopedia of World and Twentieth Century Literature, August, 1991.
- "Zajal," Companion to Arabic Literature, Routledge, 1993.
Book Publications
- Co-author. Naked in Exile: Kahlil Hawi's The Threshing Floors of Hunger, Interpretation and Translation, Three Continents Press, 1984.
- Co-author. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's al-Safina (The Ship), Three Continents Press, 1985. (Introduction and translation).
- Co-author. Henri Zoghaib's Fi al-Zaman al-Mamnu (In Forbidden Time), New Pen Bond, 1991.
-Yawmuyya t fi al-manfa (Memoirs in Exile) by Joseph Abi Daher, introduced and translated with Michael Beard, (principal author) (New Pen Bond, Washington, DC and Dar Canaan, Jounieh, Lebanon, 1994).
-The Search for Walid Masoud, A translation of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's Aal-Bahth an Walid Mas ud introduction by Edward Said (Random House, forthcoming).
-Memoirs of Everyday Sorrow a translation into English of Mahmud Darwish's Yawmiyyat al-huzn al-adi (PROTA, Cambridge, MA, forthcoming).
Book Reviews
-A Short History of Arabic Poetry Edebiuyat by M.M. Badawi (forthcoming).
Chapters in Books
-"Toward the Interlinear: A Lexicon of Translation" with Michael Beard in Metamorphoses( Vol 2, Number 3, April 1994).
-Translation (principal author) with Michael Beard of Selected poems by Talal Haydar, Paul Shawul, Henri Zoghaib, Joseph Abi Daher, Yusuf al-Khal, Talal al- Husayni, and Huda Na mani in The Literary Review (Elise Salem Manganaro ed., March, 1994).
-An Arabic translation of "Introduction to Naguib Mahfouz: From Regional Fame to Global Recognition" (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY) appeared in November 12, 1994 issue of the literary supplement to the Lebanese Dailey al-Nahar.
-"Words That Die: Thematizing Change in Aghani Mihyar al-Dimashqi," with Michael Beard in Canon Formation (Monouba University, Tunis, forthcoming)
-"Influence in Arabic and Western Literature: A Theoretical Study," translation in Influence in Arabic and Wester Literature (Arab League Educational).
Unrefereed Publications
-"Bisharah al Khuri" in the Companion to Arabic Literature, (Fall, 1994).
-" Michael Trad" in the Companion to Arabic Literature (Fall, 1994).
(B.A., American University of Beirut, 1963; M.A., American University of Beirut, 1968; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1977) joined the University of Arkansas in 1993 and is currently Professor of Arabic language and literature in the Department of Foreign Languages. He is the co-author and co-translator of six books on modern Arabic literature. He has written more than twenty articles and ten book reviews in international and national journals, translated a large number of classical and modern Arabic poems, and presented numerous papers at national and international conferences. He has served on several editorial boards and is at present a series editor for Syracuse University Press. He was the founding director of the King Fahd Middle Eastern Studies Program (1993-2000). He was the director of the Summer Institute for Intensive Arabic Language and Culture (SINARC) at the Lebanese American University (1997-2003) and is a member of the board of the Ameen Rihani Institute. His research interests include modern and classic Arabic literature, comparative literature, folk literature and oral poetics.