His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, officially opened the 22nd ...

A new book of translations is set to bring a classical Arabic poet into the Western imagination – and change perceptions of the Middle East with it. One of literature’s undeniable life lessons is that ...

Lost amid the azure depths of 1,500 years of Arabic prose? Don't know al-Qais from Darwish? Then start here A portrait painted on a street in Beirut by artist Yazan Halwani in January 2014 depicts the ...

The Algerian organization ONDA has recently published a collection of 40 popular poems in Arabic. <i>El Moudjahid</i> reports that a commission created within ONDA carried out a long research and went ...

The 22nd edition of the Sharjah Arabic Poetry Festival will commence on 5th January 2026, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council ...

An attractive pocket-sized manuscript that I recently acquired reflects a long tradition to recite the liturgical poem “Mi Kamocha, Ve’en Kamocha” of Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141) in Adar. This ...

Not only was Islam leaving its poetic mark, at the same time there was a movement of Buddhists, Hindus and Chinese throughout SE Asia and these four major philosophies have left their marks on the ...

Souad Massi, one of the most successful female singer-songwriters in the Arabic-speaking world, talks about her latest album El Mutakallimûn, in which she daringly reworks contemporary and ancient ...

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