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

As the world marked World Poetry Day, a quiet unease settled among Arab poets, a sense that the currents of their art were shifting, perhaps drifting away from familiar shores. They spoke of a ...

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

As part of its centennial celebrations, Sharjah Public Libraries (SPL), in collaboration with the Arabic Language Academy in ...

Do you ever think about how poetry’s is relevant to politics? Dujie Tahat does. Tahat is Seattle’s new Civic Poet for the ...

The Sharjah Press Club (SPC), affiliated with the Sharjah Government Media Bureau (SGMB), wrapped up its Ramadan Majlis on ...

Peerzada Mohsin Shafi On World Poetry Day, as UNESCO's call to honour poets and preserve linguistic heritage echoes globally, ...

The ousted Assad dictatorship kept lists of millions of wanted people. Now, Syrians are openly asking whether they “have a ...

His Highness the Amir, accompanied by His Highness the Crown Prince and Acting Prime Minister, visits the Kuwait Sport Club ...

Many Indian writers have benefitted from the famed Iowa Writing Program, but recent funding cuts threaten to close this ...

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...