The blog aggregates news about publications, activities, etc. related to Egyptian/Arabic scholarship in the field of Greco-Roman studies and thus seeks to challenge the Eurocentrism prevalent in the field. It aims also at directing the attention to relevant materials from modern nonacademic/public contexts; roughly from 1798-to the present. The news comes mainly from Egypt without excluding other Arabic countries.
The late Prof. Dr. Muhammed Silem Salem, the founder of classics department in Ain Shams University, has prepared in 1971 an edition of Averroes'Talḫīṣ kitāb al-šiʿr or "Middle Commentary on the Poetics of Arsitotle". A digital version is available in my computer ( just send me an email).
