PROSE / Novelist and Short Story Writers
 

EAST-WEST NEXUS/PROTA PUBLICATIONS:

* THE ANTHOLOGIES

• ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN ARABIC POETRY, Columbia University Press, New York, 1987.

• THE LITERATURE OF MODERN ARABIA, AN ANTHOLOGY, Kegan Paul Inter-national, London, 1988.

• MODERN PALESTINIAN LITERATURE, AN ANTHOLOGY, Columbia University Press, New York, 1992.

• MODERN ARABIC DRAMA, AN ANTHOLOOGY, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1993.

• ARABIC SHORT PLAYS, Interlink Books, New York, 2003.

• MODERN ARABIC FICTION, AN ANTHOLOGY, in press, at Columbia University Press, New York, 2005.

* BOOKS ON ARAB/ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION:

• THE LEGACY OF MUSLIM SPAIN, Brill, Leiden, 1992.

• JERUSALEM IN ANCIENT HISTORY AND TRADITION, ed. by Thomas Thompson with the collaboration of Salma Khadra Jayyusi, T & T INTERNATIONAL, A CONTINUUM IMPRINT, London- New York, 2003.

• MY JERUSALEM, ESSAYS, POEMS, REMINECSENCES, in press, Interlink Books, 2004.

• HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARAB THOUGHT, in press at I.B. Tauris, London & New York, 2004.

• The collection also includes about 13 single author translations form various Arab countries, mostly published in English by interlink Books, Vantage, & the University of Texas in the US, & Zed Books, Saqi Books, & Three Continents Press in the UK.

* BOOKS ON FOLKLORE:

• THE ADVENTRES OF SAYF IBN DHI YAZAN, a folk romance, done part translation, part retelling by Lena Jayyusi, Indiana University Press, 1995.

• ABU JAMEEL’S DAUGHTER & OTHE STORIES, by Jamal Saleem Nuweihed, Interlink Books, 2002.
  
  OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH:A SELECTION

• Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry, a 2 volume critical history published in 1977 by E.J. Brill. Its Arabic translation has appeared in Beirut in 1999,

• “Two Types of Hero in Contemporary Arabic Literature”, in Mundus Atrium, Pittsburg, Vol. X. Number 1, 1977.

• “Contemporary Arabic Poetry, Visions and Attitudes”, in Studies in Modern Arabic Literature, ed. Robin Ostle, 1978.

• “Umayyad Verse” chapter in the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, Vol.. I, 1982.

• "Andalusi Poetry, the Golden Age" chapter in The Legacy of Muslim Spain, Brill, Leiden, 1992.

• Andalusi Poetry, "Nature and the Rise of Ibn Khafaja" chapter in The Legacy of Muslim Spain, Brill, Leiden, 1992.

• “Modernist Poetry in Arabic” chapter in the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, Vol. IV, 1993.

• “Najib Mahfouz and Nobel.,” in Studies on Najib Mahfouz, ed. A. Haydar and M. Bearde, 1993.

• “Freedom and Compulsion: Poets of the Seventies”, symposium in Oxford, 1993, published in Journal of Arabic Literature, XXVI, ed. Robin Ostle and Derek Hopwood, 1994.

• “Return to Tradition as Positive Action”, Keynote Lecture at the conference on Tradition and Modernity, Exeter, September, 1994, published in 1995.

• “The Resistance of the Qasida Form in Arabic.” Keynote Lecture at “The Qasida Conference.” 1993, at SOAS, ed. Stefan Sperl and Christopher Shackle, Brill, 1996.

• “Culture: A Global View”, essay published in the 1995 Jahrbuch of the WISSENSCHAFTS Colleg zu Berlin.