poetry

The Supreme Council of Culture convened on Saturday to vote on winners of the annual State Cultural Awards.

Ghada Khalifa began as an amateur poet. “I first made an exhibition of my paintings. I wrote some text for…

The recent poem of Gunter Grass, “What Must Be Said,” has stirred a storm of controversy in the West, as…

Iran's deputy culture minister on Saturday hailed German Nobel literature laureate Gunter Grass's poem in which he accused Israel of…

In solidarity with activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah, who has been detained since October in relation to the…

On a crisp Friday night, dozens of Egyptians, Poles and miscellaneous expats lounged on orange beanbags to take in the…

On 24 September, Egyptian poets celebrated World Poetry Movement Day with recitations across Cairo, the most notable of which was…

Talaat Zakareya: You must have heard of what’s going on in Tahrir Square. Bassem Youssef: No, what, what? Z: Drums…

The revolution is political and poetic.

The past two weeks have seen Cairo’s Tahrir Square filled by mass protests and scarred by violence. Much of the…