by Amir Taheri | Jul 4, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Ask any Iranian who the persons they most admire are and you are likely to hear a list of poets- from Ferdowsi and Saadi centuries ago to Iraj Mirza and Sohrab Sepehri more recently. For an average Iranian, the poet is not only a creator of beauty but also the...
by Samir Atallah | Aug 31, 2016 | Opinion
For the Chinese, calligraphy is an art almost as revered as poetry. In Arab culture, calligraphy is as valued as drawing is in the west, and I do not know why Arab intelligence services suffer from a shortage of calligraphers. The words for signboards are composed by...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 30, 2016 | Middle East
Algeria – Debates are heating up within the Algerian educational and political circles after Minister of Education Nouria Benghebrit suggested that teaching in French could improve students’ results. Benghebrit said that a field study done by experts in pedagogy...
by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Apr 27, 2016 | Interviews
Fran Mires is a bilingual television producer who has worked in this field since 1990. She has produced dozens of television shows in English, Spanish and Arabic. She graduated from San Francisco State University and has a masters degree in journalism from the Medill...
by Ben Leakey | Jun 18, 2013 | Lifestyle & Culture
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Last year, Lebanese tourism minister Fadi Abboud considered legal action against Showtime over their series Homeland, set partly in Beirut. He told the Associated Press that “it showed Hamra Street with militia roaming in it. This does...
