H.H. Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has directed the allocation of a site on Emirates Road, opposite Sharjah Mosque, to host the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF).
The Sharjah Ruler's directive was announced during the 'Direct Line' program broadcasted on Sharjah
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
Alongside cup-marks, the Chitter Pari rock art site features anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and geometric motifs
In 2008, I visited Chitter Pari for the first time as I was travelling to Mirpur City. A friend had told me about the rock carvings in Chitter Pari village while I was doing research on the cultural landscape in Punjab’s
