The café’s name is the nickname of a singer, oud and lute player, composer, poet, and teacher Abu l-Hasan ‘Ali Ibn Nafi, who lived in what is now Iraq, Northern Africa and Andalusia during the ...

In its first dedicated campus space, Yale’s Middle Eastern and North African community launched MENA Heritage Month ...

Amman, March 20 (Petra) -- As the world marked World Poetry Day, a quiet unease settled among Arab poets, a sense that the currents of their art were shifting, perhaps drifting away from familiar ...

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 ...

Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis—such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestine—does not capture the full picture.

So is the sense that there is nowhere for Arab Americans to turn. In Detroit and its suburbs, anger is deep over Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. So is the sense that there is nowhere for Arab ...

Against the backdrop of today’s ongoing conflicts and refugee crises in the Middle East, the book offers a deeply relevant ...

Yasmeen Ludy joined the ABC 10News team in October 2024. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, her passion for news and storytelling began early. She was often found reading magazines, writing ...

Royal Gold Medal winner Yasmeen Lari has turned down a $100,000 arts prize from Israeli non-profit organisation the Wolf Foundation, citing ‘continuing genocide in Gaza’ The Wolf Prize recognises ...

But perhaps his least-known endeavor was as a poet. Kilmer was a writer of poetry for much of his adult life, having begun dabbling in the form in his twenties as he studied at The Juilliard ...

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will become Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate. I will be passing the laurels onto ...

For the past decade, the “Ghost of Reem Island,” as she was referred to in the press, has haunted me.