“We didn’t just want classic sonnets – we wanted spoken word, lyrics, ghazals, Persian poetry, and unstructured verse,” Murji explains. “We also incorporated Mohawk, Arabic, and Farsi texts alongside ...

Culture Minister Ines Abdel-Dayem opened the 5th Cairo International Forum for Arab Poetry at the Cairo Opera House on Monday. This year's edition of the forum saw an increase in the prize from ...

From poetry and music to visual arts and fashion ... with the ‘West’, Amina challenges the prevailing stereotypes and prejudices about Yemeni and Arab communities in the UK. Similarly, Amina’s poetry ...

In retaliation, Al-Dahnā wielded the power of poetry, and the vigor of the Arabic language, to voice her reasons for seeking a divorce. At a time in Islamic history when poetry held immense ...

Additionally, the Sharjah Award for Arab Poetry Criticism and the Sharjah Award for Arab Visual Arts Criticism will spotlight literary and artistic talent. Throughout the year, the Department of ...

Growing up as a native Arabic speaker, I always had a deep love and admiration for the language. From an early age, I studied its rich sections – grammar, poetry, prose and classical literature.

The Qatar Poetry Center (Diwan Al Arab), affiliated with the Ministry of Culture (MoC), organized a special poetry evening at Qatar National Library (QNL) to celebrate World Poetry Day ...

DOHA: The Qatar Poetry Center (Diwan Al Arab), affiliated with the Ministry of Culture (MoC), organised a special poetry evening at Qatar National Library (QNL) to celebrate World Poetry Day, observed ...

Amman, March 20 (Petra) -- As the world marked World Poetry Day, a quiet unease settled among Arab poets, a sense that the currents of their art were shifting, perhaps drifting away from familiar ...

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Sheri-D Wilson is a Calgary-based writer and artist of 13 books, four short films and three words and music albums. She was ...