ARCE member and professor Th. Emil Homerin has published two books in over the past year. Emanations of Grace, Mystical Poems by'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyah, is a rare anthology of poems by by a 16th century woman mystic who spent time in Damascus and Cairo.  Homerin's second recent book, Passion Before Me, My Fate Behind, Ibn al-Farid, is a study, with translations, of the poetry of Ibn al-Farid, the most famous Arab Sufi poet, who died in Cairo in 1235.

Dr. Homerin is Professor of Religion, Department of  Religion & Classics at the University of Rochester, where he teaches classes on Islam, classical Arabic literature, and mysticism. He has lived and worked in Egypt on many occassions.