# Jawdat Fakhreddine — AUB professor

> Jawdat Fakhreddine teaches 3 courses at American University of Beirut, with 7 student reviews.

Source: https://studiety.com/aub/professor/5466-jawdat-fakhreddine
Retrieved: 2026-09-19

## Teaching in Fall 2026-2027

- [ARAB 237 — Arabic Poetry and Modernity](https://studiety.com/aub/course/833): Lecture 1 (2 seats left)
- [ARAB 246 — The Lexicon of the Nahda](https://studiety.com/aub/course/836): Lecture 1 (full)

## Courses taught

- [ARAB 237 — Arabic Poetry and Modernity](https://studiety.com/aub/course/833)
- [ARAB 238 — Arabic Poetry and Modernity](https://studiety.com/aub/course/1243)
- [ENGL 102 — Enrichment Course in English](https://studiety.com/aub/course/796)

## Student ratings

- Overall: 4.5/5 from 4 ratings

## What students said

Reviews are shown without their authors' names.

- **ARAB 237 · 5/5 · 2024-04** — Jawdat Fakhreddine's ARAB 237 is very easy, with high grades easily attainable.

- **ARAB 237 · 5/5 · 2024-04** — ARAB 237 with Jawdat Fakhreddine is very easy; a student who took it describes it as an easy 100.

- **ARAB 237 · 4/5 · 2023-11** — ARAB 237 (Modern Poetry), taught by Jawdat Fakhredine, is an easy Arabic elective with only a few writing assignments, though attendance is mandatory.

- **ARAB 237 · 4/5 · 2022-11** — ARAB 237 with Jawdat Fakhreddine is suggested as the easiest Arabic course.

- **ARAB 233 · 2020-08** — This course tackles the Abbasids era poetry. To take this course you must have a little background about this era and you must have passion in poetry, because you’ll mainly take poems written by Abbasid poets from both Abbasid eras (era1 and era 2). At the first week of this course, the professor will talk about the eras prior to the Abbasid one, like Al-ghahileya’s era (pre-Islamic era), Islamic era, and all the way to the Umayyad era and how they reached the Abbasids era (those poets who started their life during the Umayyad era) and what do you think about their ability to change the way of their poems. So in this era their was a poetic renaissance catalyzed by cultural exchange. You’ll mainly study about Bashar (who began to modernize poetry and its topics), Abou-Nawas, Abou-Tamam, and Al-Bohtore, you’ll be taught about their poems and you must memorize some and take notes to use them in writing your papers, also you must be an innovative in writing and expressing your thoughts. You’ll also study briefly in the class about other poets, but you won’t really need to focus on them. By the way in the class you’ll have some debates about them and their poems. Indeed it’s an amazing course that you would really love it and advise others to take it.

- **ARAB 237 · 2020-02** — Low workload but also low grades

- **ENGL 102 · 2019-11** — Never fakhredine!!!

## See also

- [All AUB professors](https://studiety.com/aub/professors.md)

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