ABU DHABI, 5th May, 2025 (WAM) -- On the ninth day of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF), a session titled Al Mutanabbi’s Inventions explored the enduring legacy of the celebrated ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 293 leaves, plus 3 flyleaves, 13 lines to the page written in naskh in black ink, verses separated by gold rosettes with red and blue dots, surah headings in large white ...

The festival is expected to attract families and visitors from across the UAE The event will showcase Al Ain’s rich cultural heritage, providing an engaging and welcoming environment for ...

Iraq’s supreme religious leader, Sayyed Ali Sistani, performs his authority based on two intricate recitals. The first is that he is a moderate religious cleric; supervises hundreds of charitable and ...

One group staking a major claim for that role is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which, under the leadership of Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, spearheaded the opposition advance that toppled Assad. What is Hayat ...

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, former leader of al-Qaeda's Syrian branch, is rebranding himself as a moderate political figure. He broke from al-Qaeda in 2016, forming Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and now ...

Islamist leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani, who led a lightning offensive through Syria, has a long history of extremism despite a recent appeal to moderate policies. "Golani is a specially designated ...

A jihadist and an extremist? Or a new face of a modern and tolerant Syria? Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose insurgency toppled President Bashar Assad, has long pursued a political ...

His first public appearance in public came after his group HTS took control of Aleppo Abu Mohammed Al Jolani gives a speech from an undisclosed location, in the first video ever showing his face ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Days before his forces toppled Syria’s Assad regime, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani triumphantly walked up the ...

The offensive by the Islamist militant group, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, and other rebel groups was led by Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, who has been designated a terrorist by the United States since 2013.

That militant’s name is Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, and he is called a terrorist by the United States and others. But experts, including those who have met him, paint a more complex portrait ...