Juan Elia’s poetry serves as a catalyst for reconnecting individuals with the fading voice of Urdu, which once flourished ...

Arabic is intimate in its distance. It is Semitic, like Hebrew—its twin in syntax and soul. It is embedded in the names of ...

Choreographers and poets from the Middle East and North Africa feature in the 79th edition's lineup, but playwrights remain ...

The initiative represents a cornerstone of SBA’s strategy to support publishers ...

Mahdi Fleifel’s street-level drama bursts with energy and pitiless realism, with dashes of poetry.

The Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) has announced the approval of 167 new titles under its specialised publishing and ...

Arabic and Persian not only shaped the literary culture of thetime but also influenced the direction in which it developed.

It’s an existence balanced between “what is and what must be,” as another refugee says, quoting “Praise for the High Shadow” ...

In terms of its usual meanings, “Haram” means “forbidden”—or “forbidden by the Qaran,” as Gordon Grdina, leader of Gordon ...

Zajal, colloquial Arabic poetry in strophic form, was primarily an oral art until it was appropriated by the Egyptian nationalist literati in the late nineteenth century. The work of Yaʿqub Sannuʿ ...

The New Jersey-born, New York-based 'multidisciplinary propagandist' weaves non-Western sounds into a potent critique of the ...