Dubai Fashion Week (DFW), the city’s official fashion week co-founded by Dubai Design District (d3) and the Arab Fashion Council, launches its Spring/Summer 2025 edition tomorrow, Monday, 2nd September.
Kicking off a week-long celebration of
I almost claim that the art of autobiography in Arabic literature has been greatly wronged by its writers, who have taken it out of the framework of history, documentation, and written confession, into the space of beautifying the writing selves,
You are brave, beyond doubt
But how have you come to know
Whether they are culprits or innocents
Whom you do you shoot at!
Dr. Perwaiz Shaharyar, a bilingual internationally acclaimed poet and story writer from India, shares his
Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler's Representative in Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of the Emirates Falconers’ Club, and in collaboration with strategic partner ADNEC Group, the Abu Dhabi International Hunting
No one sees them, pretending not to notice,
They remain the ghosts of misery living among us,
Some whisper that they pollute us so much,
Somebody who have never seen misery in life.
Kujtim Hajdari, an Albanian exiled poet, shares his
At the end of the Second World War in 1945, following the surrender of Germany and Japan, we were living in a ground-floor apartment on Hammouda Street, just a few meters from the southwestern outer wall of Abdeen Palace. This was due to the lack of available accommodation in my grandfather’s building at 24 Mostafa Kamel Street in the Abdeen district upon our return from Britain. I was
