In honour of Mahmoud Darwish’s 84th birthday, we examine how the Palestinian wordsmith continues to inspire creativity in the ...

On the modern art scene, artists Gazbia Sirri and Adham ... and social change that accompany the holy month. Arab poetry has long captured the essence of Ramadan, celebrating its mystical and ...

The 28th Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity - First Work, the 6th Tetouan Festival for Moroccan Poets, the 12th Sharjah School Theatre Festival, and the 8th Dibba Al-Hisn Theatre Festival for ...

While core acts of devotion take center stage, qasidas (Islamic odes) and devotional poetry serve as powerful complements, ...

“Divine Geometry: Islamic Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum” would ... Textually, Awrang based his work on the poetry of the legendary 13th century Persian poet Rumi. A detail from Alibaba Awrang ...

Some of this poetry has been translated into English, and translated Arabic poetry will serve as our gateway to better understanding why poetry is the diwan, or record, of the Arabs. Taught in English ...

considered to be the most perfect form of old Arabic poetry: metrically complex and traditionally containing a description of a beautiful horse or a journey upon one. At any rate, this is not the ...

The Qatar Poetry Center (Diwan Al Arab), affiliated with the Ministry of Culture (MoC), organized a special poetry evening at ...