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Fruitless Festivals, Conferences

Fruitless Festivals, Conferences

In the past, while the unions of Arabic books, public and private cultural institutions didn’t exist or were in the founding stage, we used to have special magazines that represented real interaction means among poets, writers, critics, and the Arabian reader. Thanks...
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Google commemorates Qabbani, taken from AA Arabic website


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A Rainbow That Makes the Heart Leap

A Rainbow That Makes the Heart Leap

Centres of Cataclysm: Celebrating Fifty Years of Modern Poetry in Translation Edited by Sasha Dugdale, David Constantine and Helen Constantine Published by Bloodaxe Books, London, 2016 In his seminal study of translation, “Mouse or Rat?” the late Italian linguist and...
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An Iranian clergyman speaks to a woman at his stall in Tehran’s 26th International Book Fair, at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May 1, 2013.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)


Opinion: Iran, Where Poetry is a National Crime

Opinion: Iran, Where Poetry is a National Crime

Does a seminar on reforming the meter and rhyme schemes of Persian poetry violate “Islamic values” and threaten the foundations of the Islamic Republic in Iran? That is the view of the Islamic Court in Tehran which last month sentenced two poets to 9 and 11 years in...