Aleksandr Vladimirović Kojre, published as Alexandre Koyré was a philosopher and historian of science. He contributed to the development of the history of science in France and to its diffusion in the…
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of t…
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born …
Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French academy. His most important work is on poetics and on the philosophy of science. To the latte…
Guy Ernest Debord was a French theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. In broad terms, Debord's theories att…
Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location, and symbolic violence to reveal the dynami…
Popular and accessible works of French philosopher and writer Henri Louis Bergson include Creative Evolution (1907) and The Creative Mind (1934) and largely concern the importance of intuition…
مصطفى صادق الرافعي 1298 هـ - 1356 هـ ولد في بيت جده لأمه في قرية "بهتيم" بمحافظة القليوبية عاش حياته في طنطا وبذلك يكون الرافعي قد عاش سبعة وخمسين عاماً كانت كلها ألواناً متعددة من الكفاح المتواصل في …
عنترة بن عمرو بن شداد بن معاوية بن قراد العبسي هو أحد أشهر شعراء العرب في فترة ما قبل الإسلام، اشتهر بشعر الفروسية، وله معلقة مشهورة. وهو أشهر فرسان العرب وأشعرهم وشاعر المعلقات والمعروف بشعره الجميل …
American historian and philosopher of science, a leading contributor to the change of focus in the philosophy and sociology of science in the 1960s. Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He…
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of h…
امرؤ القيس بن حُجر الكِندي واسمه حُندج (520 م - 565 م) شاعر و فارس عربي، إذ روى الأصمعي أن أبا عبيد سئل في خير الشعراء فقال: "امرؤ القيس إذا ركب والأعشى إذا طرب وزهير إذا رغب والنابغة إذا رهب". أحد أش…
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he…
لَبيد بن ربيعة بن مالك أبو عقيل العامِري عامر بن صعصعة من هوازن (توفي 41 هـ/661 م) أحد الشعراء الفرسان الأشراف في الجاهلية،عمه ملاعب الأسنة وأبوه ربيعة بن مالك والمكنى *بربيعة المقترن* لكرمه. من أهل ع…
Kyung-Sook Shin is a South Korean writer. She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for 'Please Look Aft…
Because of the caliphs' patronage and his eagerness to establish himself and reach a wider audience, al-Jāḥiẓ stayed in Baghdad (and later Samarra), where he wrot…
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
Bothayna El Essa (Arabic: بثينة العيسى) is a novelist from Kuwait. A well-known author in modern Arabic literature, her novel The Book Censor's Library was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award …
