Road to Self-Revival

Jamal Assadi is the Chair of the Department of English at The College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education, Sakhnin and a lecturer at An-Najah National University, Nablus. He received his PhD in English literature from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, Dr. Assadi is the author of Acting, Rhetoric and Interpretation in Selected Novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saul Bellow (2006), A Distant Drummer: Foreign Perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007), Mohammad Ali Taha’s «A Rose To Hafeeza’s Eyes» and Other Stories (2008), Father and Son: Selected Short Fiction by Hanna Ibrahim Elias and Mohammad Ali Saeid (2009) and Mustafa Murrar: «The Internal Pages» and Other Stories (2010).Mahmud Na‘amneh is a lecturer of Arabic at the College of Sakhnin, Israel, a researcher at the Majm a‘ of Arabic in Haifa and a coordinator of symposiums for graduate students in the Department of Arabic at Tel Aviv University, where he did his PhD on ancient myths and their manifestation in modern Arabic poetry.

«In this volume Jamal Assadi and Mahmud Na‘amneh give English readers an insightful in-road into the world of modern Arabic poetry. Through this work Assadi and Na‘amneh move us beyond the written poetic word to the possibility of ‘encounter’ through ‘presence’ that borders on the mystical.» (Michael G. Hegeman, Lecturer in Christian Studies, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix Arizona)