Dubai, UAE: The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature celebrated young literary talent at six prestigious Prize-Giving ...

Women folk singers are preserving one of Morocco's most cherished culturual traditions, a genre of folk singing known as aita ...

Mesquite ISD recognized 14 students who competed in this year’s Arabic division of the District Multilingual Spelling Bee.

DOHA: Fatima Al Sharshani is a Qatari scientist who turned her love for Arabic calligraphy into a vibrant art career.Most recently, she partnered up with Paris Saint-Germain ...

After a military coup, Sudanese filmmakers and their subjects had to flee Khartoum and decide whether to continue the ...

The General Secretariat of the Sharjah Award for Arabic Poetry Criticism has selected “Cultural and Artistic Patterns in ...

For Billboard Arabia’s first cover story of 2025, we explore the dynamic world of Al Shami, the young star who has taken the ...

In one of the few poems from the late Abbasid period, Muslim scholar Yaqut al-Hamawi wrote: “O you whose beauty's splendour ...

A graffiti in Arabic on the wall of a prison cell reads ... More Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo Some inmates turned to poetry, quoting verses like, "When you wage your wars, think of those who ask ...

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria's then-ruler Bashar al-Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on his cell wall — an expression of pain and love amid his torment.

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...