For thousands of years melodic, well-proportioned rhymed verses recorded battles, lifestyle, wisdom and feelings of the people in the region, expanding the role of Arabic poetry far beyond the borders ...

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. Studying Arab poetry to seek help in ...

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 ...

A Georgetown University professor has received a prestigious honor for her work in the field of classical Arabic poetry. Suzanne Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic ...

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 ...

Egyptian poet Iman Mersal is considered one of the prominent poetic voices in the Arab world today. Her latest collection, The Threshold, follows decades of her writing where the personal and ...

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Ph.D., has a very rare specialty. She is Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University, and ...

IT is an oft-repeated lament that the glory days of the Persian language in the Indo-Pak subcontinent were over soon after the British took over. But we often forget that in the subcontinent the ...

The Syrian-American poet and hip-hop artist Omar Offendum spent this week in Philadelphia, talking and rapping to students at Bodine High School for International Affairs in the Northern Liberties ...

ABU DHABI, 7th July, 2026 (WAM) -- Abu Dhabi Heritage Authority is set to host Season 12 of Prince of Poets, one of the Arab world’s leading cultural programmes dedicated to classical Arabic poetry.