From/ Dawlat Abouna/ Baghdad Ten new rock reliefs showing the Assyrian king and the gods of Assyria sculpted along a large rock-cut irrigation canal. By the Italian Archaeologists from (University of Udine – Italy). The team made discovery in the ar...
Translated by: Fathia Asfour Palestinian poet & tranlator **************************** Divine Elevations *The ghost of my tear mumbles on a barren woman's breast.... rolls me in the moans of a cloud that sheds you in a pond, wide open for remembran...
Of -AL-sharq Al-Awsat Arab media and viewers were shocked at the news of the death of renowned Lebanese TV anchor Najwa Kassem, who passed away unexpectedly on Thursday in Dubai. Kassem, 52, worked as a reporter for Future TV for 11 years,...
Translator: Hassan Hegazy (Egypt) The unknown that is buried behind my heart I much fear it condensing illusion Over the ledges of its cover I fear it concealing in its soft fine clouds the moons of my dream For fear that the hand of my mind...
A writer travels, one day in the blood of women His papers burn Melancholic songs quiver in his hands cry in water to become his favourite ink Monotonous as he walks Monotonous as he lives How can he, then, write a story he does not know ?when it fal...
from: Dawlat Moussa / Baghad Fr Georges Jahola in Al-Tahira church in Bakhdida in November 2016, shortly after the town's liberation.The Great Al-Tahira Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Bakhdida remains charred black inside, five years after the...
Tarik was born in Babylon. As a child he would go to the banks of river Euphrates and play with the clay, fashioning it into various forms unaware that this activity would inspire his life’s work. He would wander to nearby Babylon to gaze at the grea...
Crossed Strings Author: Amal Radwan (Palestinian poet) Translator: Hassan Hegazy (Egypt) Our names carried us to the depths of unknown reproducing.. We; an idea of a certain creation formed in the womb of the hope?! We look carefully at the sha...