Basilius Bawardi‘s (Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Arabic, Bar-Ilan University, Israel) interdisciplinary reasearch focuses on modern Arabic literature from the 19th century on, especially the link between ideology and literature, and the emergence of new genres, and Arabic detective writing.

• Published in the 1950s-60s, Sh'ir magazine led a change in the role and form of Arabic poetry, supporting modernization in Arab thinking and writing through its articles of literary criticism, translated and original Arabic poetry, all promoting a new kind of secular and personal poetics, including that of prose-poetry and vision and visual poems.

Basilius Bawardi‘s (Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Arabic, Bar-Ilan University, Israel) interdisciplinary reasearch focuses on modern Arabic literature from the 19th century on, especially the link between ideology and literature, and the emergence of new genres, and Arabic detective writing.

• Published in the 1950s-60s, Sh'ir magazine led a change in the role and form of Arabic poetry, supporting modernization in Arab thinking and writing through its articles of literary criticism, translated and original Arabic poetry, all promoting a new kind of secular and personal poetics, including that of prose-poetry and vision and visual poems.

Basilius Bawardi‘s (Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Arabic, Bar-Ilan University, Israel) interdisciplinary reasearch focuses on modern Arabic literature from the 19th century on, especially the link between ideology and literature, and the emergence of new genres, and Arabic detective writing.

• Published in the 1950s-60s, Sh'ir magazine led a change in the role and form of Arabic poetry, supporting modernization in Arab thinking and writing through its articles of literary criticism, translated and original Arabic poetry, all promoting a new kind of secular and personal poetics, including that of prose-poetry and vision and visual poems.