The festival, held across Guangdong province and Beijing for 10 days, brought together more than 40 young poets from over 10 ...
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Diwan: The Arabic word that gathers together poetry, power and public life
The derivative 'divan' survives in English as a type of sofa ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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