Qifa Nabki
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Qifa Nabki is a blog about Levantine politics, history, and culture, written by Elias Muhanna, the Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. A specialist in Classical Arabic literature and Islamic intellectual history, Elias also writes frequently for such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and The Guard
Qifa Nabki
5y ago
I’ve written an essay for The New Yorker‘s Culture Desk about the fascinating research of Ahmad Al-Jallad, a scholar of Semitic linguistics and ancient epigraphy. The first few paragraphs of the piece are below, with a link to the rest on the magazine’s webpage. Some readers may also be interested in a piece I wrote about Mashrou` Leila last summer, which I somehow forgot to post here. There was also this post about the new Lebanese electoral law and the factors that led to its adoption.
A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone
By Elias Muhanna
Afew years ago, Ahmad Al-Jallad, a professor o ..read more