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Samuel John Hazo (born 1928), poet, playwright, fiction novelist, professor; of Assyrian and Lebanese descent [1] Lawrence Joseph (born 1948), poet, writer, essayist, critic, lawyer, and professor of law; of Syrian and Lebanese descent; Lisa Suhair Majaj (born 1960), poet and scholar. Jack Marshall (born 1936), poet and author; of Iraqi and ...
Nasib Arida, Homs-born Syrian, poet and writer of the Mahjar movement. Abd al-Masih Haddad, Homs-born Syrian, writer of the Mahjar movement and journalist; Elia Abu Madi, Bikfaya-born Lebanese, poet, publisher and member of the New York Pen League; Etel Adnan, Lebanon-born half-Syrian, poet, essayist, and visual artist
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List of Arabic language poets, most of whom were or are Arabs and who wrote in the Arabic language. Each year links to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. Each year links to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article.
The Prince-Poet Imru' al-Qais, of the tribe of Kinda, is the first major Arabic literary figure. Verses from his Mu'allaqah (Hanging Poems), one of seven poems prized above all others by pre-Islamic Arabs, are still in the 20th century the most famous--and possibly the most cited--lines in all of Arabic literature.
His second poetry collection, Diwan Iliya Abu Madi, was published in New York in 1919; his third and most important collection, Al-Jadawil ("The Streams"), appeared in 1927. His other books were Al-Khama'il ("The Thickets") [ 3 ] (1940) and Tibr wa Turab (posthumous, 1960).
Ahmad Ibn Arabshah (Syrian Arab) Ahmed Ali (Pakistani) Ahmed Sofa (Bangladesh) Ahsan Habib (Bangladeshi) Akbar S. Ahmed (Pakistani) Ayad Akhtar (Pakistani American) Akhtaruzzaman Elias (Bangladeshi) Alaol (modern-day Bangladeshi) Al-Hallaj (Persian Sufi) Al-Hariri of Basra (Basra, Iraq) Al-Mutanabbi; Al-Jahiz (Basra, Iraq) Al Mahmud (Poet ...