Sbayyil

ʿAbdallah ibn Sbayyil (Author)
ʿAbdallah ibn Sbayyil (d. 1352/1933) was a poet from the High Najd region in Central Arabia, in what is now Saudi Arabia.

Annmarie Drury (Foreword by)
Annmarie Drury is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Queens College, CUNY. She is the author of Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry and is a translator of Swahili poetry.

Marcel Kurpershoek (Translator)
Marcel Kurpershoek is a senior research fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is a specialist in the oral traditions and poetry of Arabia and has written the five-volume Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, as well as several books on Middle Eastern historical and cultural topics. Formerly a diplomat for the Netherlands, he served as ambassador to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Poland, and as special envoy to Syria until 2015.