On a warm Ramadan evening, despite the cool breeze, and on the banks of the Nile, Egyptian-French artist Abdel-Razek Okasha hosted an iftar at Darna Museum. The event was attended by a distinguished group of writers, artists, academics, and media professionals. The evening concluded with a special tribute to poet, novelist, and translator
Alexandra Ochirova, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is one of the most significant voices in contemporary Russian poetry. Her Chinese poetry collection, Russian Cosmism (translated from English to Chinese), was published by The Earth Culture Press in March 2025.
The back cover features her poem The Universal Bell Is Bringing,
Sixteen-year-old Muskaan, a Christian girl from Sindh, was kidnapped, raped, and forcibly converted to Islam. After nine months in captivity, she escaped
Naeem Sahoutara
Sixteen-year-old Muskaan bursts into cheerful laughter, as she sings hymns during a Christmas party in a shelter home in Karachi.
The Catholic Christian teenager,
For you
I’ll write like primeval oceans
Hung with swollen voices
That are not from the future
Or the past or the present…
Stephen A. Rozwenc, an American expat poet who resides in Thailand, shares his poem
Stephen A. Rozwenc is an American expat poet who resides in Thailand. He has published 6 collections of
Anthropological study of the arrival of the small ethnic group Tanchangyas in Bangladesh
A review of history shows that Dainaks or Tanchangyas came to Bangladesh unable to bear torture and oppression. It is said that the Arakanese used to persecute the Tanchangyas.
The Tanchangyas have crossed a long path of history with the identity
