In March, 2011, when civil protests broke out in cities and towns across Syria, the country’s most famous poet, Adonis—who is in his eighties and has lived in exile since the ...

A 12th-century poem dedicated to Saladin and a 15th-century chronicle provide new independent testimonies about the stellar explosions of the years 1006 and 1181, crucial for modern astrophysics. In a ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Every year around this time the name of the Syrian poet Adonis pops up in newspapers and in betting shops. Adonis (pronounced ah-doh-NEES), a pseudonym adopted by Ali Ahmad Said Esber ...

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Editors’ Note: This essay is one of a group of essays on Arab American poetry. Read the rest here. On October 10, 2002, I submitted the following as part of a required essay for my undergraduate ...

Speakers of Urdu interested in Arabic literature were delighted when poet and literary scholar Dr Khurshid Rizvi, an expert in Arabic literature, published this year his book on Maulana Altaf Hussain ...

Translator's note: Nizar Qabbani was the most popular and beloved Arab poet of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born in Damascus in 1923. He started out as a romantic poet, with daring ...

My brother’s illness made me a “sickle cell warrior” The family murder that launched our campaign Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh was confined to a deserted stable for having banned books in his possession ...

KUN0082 4 GEN 0273 FRANCE /KUNA-PKN1 CUL-ALGERIA-ARAB-FORUM Algiers' Arabic poetry forum to kick off Sunday ALGIERS, Feb 24 (KUNA) -- Under the theme of "Roots and Future," Algiers' Forum for Arabic ...