Translator's note: Nizar Qabbani was the most popular and beloved Arab poet of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born in Damascus in 1923. He started out as a romantic poet, with daring ...

This piece by Samy Marwan Mobayed was first published by Raseef22, an Arabic media platform, on March 21, 2023. An edited version is republished here, under a content-sharing agreement. March 21 marks ...

Yadollah Goudarzi is the translator of the collections “Blue Inclined to Love”, and “Your Love Is a Green Bird”, which have been published by Gouya Publications in Tehran. "The most complete ...

Every year, Arab scholars commemorate the 1981 assassination of Balqis al-Rawi, wife of poet Nizar Qabbani. He stopped writing about love - and the Arab world was never the same Portraits of Balqis al ...