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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
My brother’s illness made me a “sickle cell warrior” The family murder that launched our campaign Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh was confined to a deserted stable for having banned books in his possession ...
In its general sense, zajal refers to poetry composed in any of a number of colloquial Arabic dialects. Much more ...
KUN0082 4 GEN 0273 FRANCE /KUNA-PKN1 CUL-ALGERIA-ARAB-FORUM Algiers' Arabic poetry forum to kick off Sunday ALGIERS, Feb 24 (KUNA) -- Under the theme of "Roots and Future," Algiers' Forum for Arabic ...