Our Oracle-Ruin: The Arabic Poetic Tradition in Light of Gaza

Chair: Marwan Rashed, Sorbonne Université 

Huda J. Fakhreddine

A writer and translator, Huda J. Fakhreddine is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (Routledge, 2023). Her writings include a creative non-fiction titled Zaman saghīr taḥt shams thāniya A Brief Time under a Different Sun (2019). She is co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures and section editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam.