Egyptian novelist Mohamed Samir Nada has won the 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for The Prayer of Anxiety. Nada ...

The Arabic script influenced several South Asian languages such as Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, and Malayalam. While ...

There’s something so satisfying about wandering through Old Dubai’s souqs. While I don’t enjoy people constantly trying to ...

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

Roughly 3.5 million Arab Americans live in the United States, contributing to America's cultures, customs, backgrounds, beliefs and history for many years. April is National Arab American Heritage ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

The viral track, “Sawt Safiri El Bolboli (Qissa)“, is actually a poem by Abdul-Malik Al-Asma’i, performed as a song by Ahmed El Qatane in 2012. And guess what? It’s about the whistling ...

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.

Tayseer Shamaseen, a voice of seasoned reflection, posed a simple question: "Where is the Arab poem going ... "I repeat in a total silence the famous saying of the German poet Bertolt Brecht ...