HAYDAR, ADNAN
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(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.