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Awsat, former Egyptian Foreign Minister and ex-Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa reflected on his encounters with some ...
A new bilingual collection of poems celebrating Wales' rivers gives Welsh and English "equal weight" to encourage poets to write in their first language. Fifty poets from Wales each write about ...
Unfortunately, the porpoise, which is native to China, is critically endangered due to habitat loss. Thanks to over 700 Ancient Chinese poems, experts can now accurately map the decline of the ...
Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...
(Submitted by Jon Claytor) One event that McCarthy attended had three individuals all performing the work of poet Nizar Qabbani, each in a different language — Arabic, English and French.
A slew of antisemitic social media posts attributed to a Gazan journalist who regularly contributes to BBC Arabic were uncovered on Saturday, including one in which he called to “burn the Jews ...
She was arrested after she glued an excerpt of a poem by Taras Shevchenko, a poet and thinker who is widely revered in Ukraine, to a statue of Shevchenko standing in St. Petersburg. The poem read ...
Pete Hegseth's new "kafir" tattoo sits just below another inked phrase across his bicep. In Arabic, the term historically refers to someone who does not believe in Islam. Derived from the root K ...
Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...
is considered one of the greatest poets in the Arabic language, despite having died in the seventh century. She is known for intensely emotional poems—we’re going way beyond funny roses-are ...
As my understanding increased, I got more into Arabic poetry, reading literary legends like Nizar Qabbani and Mahmoud Darwish. I always knew Arabic was an expressive language, but seeing these tales ...
She was inspired by Arabic poetry as a young girl and began her poetic journey ... Influenced by poets like Mahmoud Darwish and Nizar Qabbani, she is an active member of the International Prize for ...