In the eighth-century CE the Abbasids undertook to collect the wisdom of the world in their new capital at Baghdad
In the eighth-century CE the Abbasids undertook to collect the wisdom of the world in their new capital at Baghdad. This project started with the second Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur (“the Conqueror,” r. 754–74),
Rituals are the password and key to the wonderful novel (The Devil of Al-Khidr) by the writer Muhammad Ibrahim Taha, those rituals that start from the first scene and never go away through the pages of the novel, which relies on a rural popular memory.
But before entering the novelistic text, we must question the title, as Al-Khidr in the
Dubai Fashion Week (DFW), the city’s official fashion week co-founded by Dubai Design District (d3) and the Arab Fashion Council, launches its Spring/Summer 2025 edition tomorrow, Monday, 2nd September.
Kicking off a week-long celebration of season-defining trends and exclusive launches, DFW will reinforce the city’s status as
I almost claim that the art of autobiography in Arabic literature has been greatly wronged by its writers, who have taken it out of the framework of history, documentation, and written confession, into the space of beautifying the writing selves, improving faded images, and even inventing fake histories that rely on ignorance of the
Recently, geological and climatological experts have probed evolution and disappearance of Hakro River
Satellite imagery has traced the Hakro River’s buried courses, and isotope analysis says ancient water still stored under the Thar Desert.
Several thousand years ago, the Indian subcontinent experienced significant
