The theme of love persists throughout Arabic poetry and literature. Professor Michael Sells discussed that theme on Tuesday, paying particular attention to the poetry of Ibn Zaydun and Ibn al-‘Arabi.

The horrors of civil war are explored in Waad Al-Kateab's Oscar-nominated documentary, For Sama. Al-Kateab is a Syrian journalist and filmmaker who documented both Syria's violent siege and the birth ...

An Egyptian poet and the host of the popular radio programme Our Beautiful Language (لغتنا الجميلة in Arabic), Farouk Shousha (فاروق شوشة in Arabic) would have been 82 on Tuesday, January 9. In his ...

For thousands of years melodic, well-proportioned rhymed verses recorded battles, lifestyle, wisdom and feelings of the people in the region, expanding the role of Arabic poetry far beyond the borders ...

Egyptian poet Iman Mersal is considered one of the prominent poetic voices in the Arab world today. Her latest collection, The Threshold, follows decades of her writing where the personal and ...

The Syrian-American poet and hip-hop artist Omar Offendum spent this week in Philadelphia, talking and rapping to students at Bodine High School for International Affairs in the Northern Liberties ...

Creating music to the ears, taking you back to the Andalusian and Abbasid era with the beauty of formal Arabic poetry expressed with oriental music, Al-Farabi band has succeeded in creating its own ...