Kevin Blankinship is a professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University and a contributing editor at New Lines Magazine. He tweets at @AmericanMaghreb
Kevin Blankinship
Articles
Feast and Fight: A New Adaptation of “Samak the Ayar”
The tale of a Persian Robin Hood who hoodwinks his enemies yet keeps a stern moral code.
Rushdie’s Deal with the Devil
Thirty years on from the release of "The Satanic Verses," Kevin Blankinship considers the Rushdie Affair and how it overshadowed the author's novel.
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