"Arabic calligraphy is the most beautiful," says Hana Sadiq, a Franco-Iraqi fashion designer who lives in Jordan — Khalil MAZRAAWI With verses from love poems and flowing calligraphy, Jordan-based ...

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 ...

An Israeli Arab poet was sentenced on Tuesday to five months’ imprisonment for social media posts, including a video of a poetry reading expressing support for Palestinian resistance against Israeli ...

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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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 ...

With verses from love poems and flowing calligraphy, Jordan-based fashion designer Hana Sadiq stitches a testament to the beauty of Arab women. In a career spanning decades, Iraqi-born Sadiq has shown ...