Abdullah al-Udhari
Abdullah al-Udhari was born in Taiz, Yemen, in 1941. He studied Classical Arab Literature and Sabaean Epigraphy at London University, where he also received a doctorate for his pioneering study, Jahili Poetry before Imru al-Qais (4000 BCE–500 CE), which established him as an authority on early Jahili Literature. A literary historian, poet and storyteller, his other publications include Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry by Adonis, Mahmud Darwish and Samih al-Qasim (also...
