In his poem Our Death is Our Wedding with Eternity, Rumi writes: “The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house. This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes; It is not in the juice ...

Baraka read the now-notorious poem "Somebody Blew Up America," in which ... theory that has been embraced by many people in the Arab world. Besides being widely regarded as anti-Semitic, the ...

The problem is that the term “music,” representing some combination of instruments and voice, does not map well onto the Arabic term musiqa ... perhaps one of his most famous poems, with the lines, ...

Over 15% of the award winners are queer people of color. They're exploring liberation through dance, poetry, cabaret, and ...

And so live ever—or else swoon to death. One of literary history’s most famous love poems, “Bright Star” was written by English Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821) and dedicated to his ...

meaning 'our guide' or 'our master' in Arabic and Persian, or Mevlana meaning 'our guide' in Turkish. His major work is Masnavi-ye Manavi (Spiritual Couplets). This is a six-volume poem regarded ...

The first grand opera to be produced in Saudi Arabia has had its opening performance in Riyadh - part of Crown Prince ...

Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, witnessed one of the most shocking assassinations in recent Middle Eastern history: former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in a bomb attack on his convoy near ...

Legends' Experts Develop Thought Leadership Program Alongside Content, Managing Media Relations with TV Channels, Newspapers, ...

Last week, the biennial Sonica Festival kicked off in Glasgow, with this year's edition spotlighting Egyptian artists. The ...

Later, to symbolize his political and spiritual transformations, an Islamic minister renamed LeRoi Jones "Ameer Barakat," meaning "Blessed Prince" in Arabic. Subsequently, Maulana Karenga ...

A lot of them were, and Silver wondered what had happened to them after they had left the region and moved to countries where Arabic was not the dominant language. In one famous example ...