“Arabic had been a passion for me much before I flew in to the UAE,” says Ismail who hails from Kerala. He mastered the language by taking a post-graduate degree and also did the preliminary for ...

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 ...

Across the Arab world, poetry is considered to be one of the highest art forms, with a heritage stretching back to the pre-Islamic era, and the epic odes of Imru al-Qais and Antarah ibn Shaddad.

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 ...

An attractive pocket-sized manuscript that I recently acquired reflects a long tradition to recite the liturgical poem “Mi Kamocha, Ve’en Kamocha” of Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141) in Adar. This ...

Not only was Islam leaving its poetic mark, at the same time there was a movement of Buddhists, Hindus and Chinese throughout SE Asia and these four major philosophies have left their marks on the ...

All the beauty in you holds me, my love,” Egyptian artist BOSA, formerly known as Bosaina, sings softly and ethereally in ...

The festival, held across Guangdong province and Beijing for 10 days, brought together more than 40 young poets from over 10 ...