Hollywood actor Richard Gere recently read a poem by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in a video on social media to ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...