Discover the identity of the 'Prince of Poets,' Ahmed Shawqi. Learn about this significant Arabic poet's mastery of Classical ...

His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, officially opened the 22nd ...

Lost amid the azure depths of 1,500 years of Arabic prose? Don't know al-Qais from Darwish? Then start here A portrait painted on a street in Beirut by artist Yazan Halwani in January 2014 depicts the ...

A seminar on “The Emotional Trend in Arabic Poetry and Its Transformations” was held at the House of Poetry in Sharjah as ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The Algerian organization ONDA has recently published a collection of 40 popular poems in Arabic. <i>El Moudjahid</i> reports that a commission created within ONDA carried out a long research and went ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Arabic edition of '100 Great Indian Poems', selected and edited by Indian diplomat and acclaimed litterateur Abhay K, has been launched at the ongoing 11-day Sharjah International Book Fair. The ...