Brief commentary of: Rocío Quispe Agnoli, “Foreword” Bedouin Poets of the Nafud Desert. Khalaf Abū Zwayyid, ʿAdwān al-Hirbīd and ʿAjlān ibn Rmāl. Ed. and transl. Marcel Kurpershoek. New York: New York UP, 2025, p. xiii-xviii. The essay can be read here: https://www.academia.edu/143994909/_Foreword_to_Bedouin_Poets_of_the_Nafud_Desert