Adnan Haydar

Professor
(Ph.D from University of California, San Diego)

Email: ahaydar@uark.edu

Teaching & Research Interest:

Modern and Classic Arabic literature, Comparative Literature, Folk Literature and Oral Poetics.

Publication:

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.

Others:

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.