On the 30th of August 2006 Naǧīb Maḥfūẓ died-a legend and symbol of modern Arabic literature, so far the only Noble Prize winner (1988) in that field. For decades he had enriched literature with new novels, short stories ...

At the advent of the twentieth century, Egypt was subjected to different cultural currents the most prominent of which was the emergence of the “Dīwān Group” who shook off the bases of the traditional poetry with the ideas ...

The Qur’ān is ample of verses that hint at or deal with some of the events which faced Muḥammad and the community (al-umma) at Medina; and it may be noticed that, of all its chapters, the one entitled as Sūrat at-tawba ...

The work Kitāb al-maḥāsin wa-al-masāwī (The Book of Virtues and Vices) by Ibrāhīm Ibn Muḥammad al-Bayhaqī illustrates the existence of widely developed beggary in the 10th century. There is scarce information about the ...

The Arabs, who have lived in deserts for centuries, obviously owe a lot of the good and the bad to it. From time immemorial-from the “deepest” ǧāhiliyya (the epoch of the pre-Islamic unawareness)-utterly set into the desert ...

Kissinger followed a unique policy in his mediation efforts between the Arabs and Israel by eliciting proposals from each side, getting preliminary reactions, identifying obstacles and then starting the diplomatic process ...

This essay focus on Al-Baṣīr’s life, obstacles he faced during his life and what means he had to become the most biggest writer of essays in Kuwait and Arabian Gulf.

First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), University of Mainz, September 8-13, 2002.

Kuwait–History and the Present Time: a seminar to commemorate the 40th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Kuwait and Poland held at Szkoła Główna Handlowa (Main Buisness School) in Warsaw on the 16th ...

Katar należy do najzamożniejszych krajów świata, z PKB per capita w wysokości 63 tys. USD (2006)2. Od kilku lat państwo to cechuje się wysokim wzrostem gospodarczym, który w 2006 r. osiągnął 8,8%3. Wraz z Arabią Saudyjską, ...