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Tom Abi Samra @tabisamra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m sure you’ve all wondered about what “taḍmīn” means in the Arabic sciences, including poetry. Luckily, I’ve got an answer for you: kalimat-keywords.net/articles/ta%...

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Natalie Kraneiß @kranatalie.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Hybrid Conference: “Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800)” Nov 20–22, 2025 | Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Münster Program & registration: uni.ms/poetry-and-knowledge You are warmly welcome to join us - on site or online!

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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

New Release! 📚 A Demon Spirit: Arabic Hunting Poems, by Abū Nuwās, translated by James E. Montgomery contains hunting poems which convey power relations of the hunt. Explore the work of one of the greatest Arabic poets, now available from the Library of Arabic Literature.

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Hi everyone I wrote this it’s real I can hold it and it’s not too big of a doorstop (it’s actually quite svelte I could see you carrying it places if you wanted to be weird). So, uh, you can buy it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Slightly shocked-looking woman with very curly hair and dark circles because she works quite hard holding the product of some of those labors, a somewhat dry academic paperback book titled Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

Digitization & cataloging is complete for the 925 manuscripts of the Ordre Basilien Choueirite, a Melkite Greek Catholic monastic order based in Khinshārah, Lebanon. Some of the rarest and oldest items in the library have an Islamic origin. Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

The beginning of the third musical mode from an Octoechos liturgical book in Arabic and Syriac, copied in approximately the 14th century. (OBC 00044)

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Lara Harb, a colleague, interlocutor, and one of the foremost scholars in the field of Classical Arabic Literature in the world, and a Palestinian alum of Brown, has written a necessary op-ed for the school’s paper. Read it. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2024...

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Harb ’04: Twenty years ago, Brown University didn’t want to fly my flag at commencement because I’m Palestinian - The Brown Daily Herald

Serving the Brown community since 1891

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

The college student who was shot in Vermont shares a message. His doctors and family say he may not walk again

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Tom Abi Samra @tabisamra.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Running this at Princeton with amazing friends, and I’ll be the first presenter. (Also super grateful to @drkeegan.bsky.social for agreeing to respond.) Join us! tinyurl.com/pisc2023

Poster of Fall 2023 events of the Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium

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Tom Abi Samra @tabisamra.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Middle East studies peeps of the world, unite!

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