Every moment is like a station
Offering a rich feast of options
But this luxury proves illusive.
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, a renowned poet and writer from Chandigarh, India, shares his mystic poetry
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In the eighth-century CE the Abbasids undertook to collect the wisdom of the world in their new capital at Baghdad
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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
Kalyam Sharif is an important village in Rawalpindi’s Gujar Khan Tehsil of Pakistan’s Punjab province
Kalyam Sharif is an important village in Rawalpindi‘s Gujar Khan Tehsil, situated about 3 km off the Grand Trunk Road, near Mandra. The village is famous for the shrine complex of Khwaja Fazaluddin Chishti Sabiri Kalyami,
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
