I was once scrolling down my Facebook account and then I stopped at a post. It was Ms. Yvonne Ridley’s photo of 20 Scottish Muslims on a mission to visit a lonely grave in the Highlands. There they prayed and remembered the deceased with due honor.
I am a winter lover. However, I hate the rituals of getting out the heavy clothes from their storage. I try to withstand the cold as much as I can till I reach the point of freezing. Overnight, I develop an urgent need to open my closet and get them
All the lights, banners and jubilation around me in this specific time of reveals the advent of a new year. People are excitedly waiting for the clock to tick to flip the page and open a new one. They are ready with new clothes, fresh wishes
It seems that my body wanted to teach me a lesson lately; something that I’d never forget. Maybe it felt sorry for me or may be it went too far but by all means, I’m sure it was out of good intentions. We are inseparable; what hurts me hurts
I can only call it the Year of Poetry, as it celebrated me just as I did for the poem, over the full four seasons.
In Egypt, the poetry procession began with the sixth edition of the Eurasian Literary Festival (LIFFT 2023) January 29 - February 1,
Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, the Republic of the Ivory Coast hosted the fourth edition of the Arabic Poetry Forum in the capital, Abidjan.
The event was organised by the Cultural Affairs Department at the Sharjah Department of Culture, with the participation of ten poets.
The Arabic Poetry Fora in Africa are in
