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 ...

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 ...

Orchestral music and lyrics first of its kind in the Arab World . Friends of poet and musician Ghassan Alameddine are pleased to invite you to attend a live concert singing lyrics from renowned Arab ...

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 ...

In Qatar, a prominent poet has been pardoned and released from prison after serving more than three years for writing and reciting a poem inspired by the Arab Spring. Rashid al-Ajami was jailed in ...

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Eight years ago, Syrian poet Adonis, who wrote My Loneliness Is a Garden, wandered through the streets of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, and caught the scent of osmanthus blossoms. He described the ...