Ahmad Fu'ad Nigm, Poet of the People (eBook)

Kamal Abdel-Malek is professor of Arabic literature at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. He was previously a visiting scholar at Harvard University (2022-2023), where he conducted research in modern Arabic literary and cultural studies, and taught at Brown University, before relocating to the UAE. His scholarship focuses on modern Arabic literature, vernacular poetics, and cross-cultural encounters. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Celebrating Muhammad: Images of the Prophet in Popular Muslim Poetry (1995, with Ali Asani and Annemarie Schimmel) and The Rhetoric of Violence: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Modern Palestinian Literature and Film (2006).