Abu Tammam (Habib ibn Aus) ( http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9039001/Hamasah)
Article explaining Tammam’s anthology Hamash, includes short biography of this 9th centry poet.
Ali Ahmad Said Asbar a.k.a Adonis or Adunis (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/adonis.htm)
Includes his biography, suggested readings, and list of selected works
Calligraphy Qalam: An Introduction to Arabic, Ottoman and Persian Calligraphy (http://calligraphyqalam.com/index.html)
This website contains information on the history, various styles, techniques, classes, as well as a gallery of various types of calligraphy in the Arabic script
Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp)
Searching this comprehensive English language ethnological site by country name will yield lists and articles of the languages and linguistic groups spoken and read in it.
Introduction to Arabic (http://lexicorient.com/babel/arabic/002.htm)
Babel allows you to learn introductory grammar as well as the basics of conversation in Arabic, each page has sentences written in Arabic, transliterated into English, and recorded in Arabic
Nizar Qabbani (http://www.adab.com/en/modules.php?name=Sh3er&doWhat=ssd&shid=2)
“Syrian diplomat, poet, essayist and playwright, one of the most popular love poets in the Arab world.” Web site includes three pages of his poems translated into English.
Poets (http://www.geocities.com/marxist_lb/index2.htm#me)
List of poets and featured works from several countries, includes 4 Syrian poets
Princeton University Library's Digital Islamic Manuscript Collection (http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=islamic)
Princeton University Library holds approximately 9,500 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and other languages of the Muslim world written in Arabic script. The manuscripts date from the 9th to the 19th centuries. 200 of these manuscripts are being digitized for their digital library.
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