Kevin Blankinship, Assistant Professor of Asian & Near Eastern Languages
A 13th-century guide to fraud and skulduggery
Essay, The Spectator, November 7, 2020
Weekly Arabic Translation Challenge: The Crime of al-Ma’arri’s Father
Twitter, May 2020
EP009 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on the life and works of poet-philosopher ‘heretic’ Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. 1058)
Abbasid History Podcast, March 29, 2020
Lost in Translation: Classical Arabic Literature
Essay, The Millions, November 26, 2019
Full-bodied
Book Review, TLS, November 22, 2019
In Love and Word Ensnared
Book Review, ArabLit.org (Arabic Literature and Translation), November 19, 2019
Poetry and Prose Lecture with Professor Kevin Blankinship
Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Newsletter, April 3, 2019
Rushdie’s Deal with the Devil
Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books January 30, 2019
The Benefits of a Foreign-Language Tattoo
Essay, The Atlantic, December 9, 2018
Of Fights and Fables: A Warrior Poet of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Book Review, Marginalia (Los Angeles Review of Books), September 14, 2018
Like a Bride: The Qur’an and Arabic Prose
Essay, Marginalia (Los Angeles Review of Books), July 6, 2018
All Men by Nature Desire to Know
Essay, Bridges (BYU Alumni Magazine), Jan-June 2018
U of U Professor Hosts Lecture on Arabic Language and Culture for Utah Humanities Book Festival
Interview, The Signpost, Weber State University, September 29, 2017