Amidst a festive atmosphere in the open-air theatre in the courtyard of the Egyptian city of Luxor, the Luxor Arabic Poetry Festival put the final touches on the activities of the ninth edition, held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, and organised by the
I am the sea and the ocean, the captain of my ship, under this firmament.
I am the volcano and the ice of Antarctica…
Alma Buljubasic Maglic, a poet from Bosnia and Herzegovina, based in Denmark, shares her poems
Alma Buljubasic Maglic was born in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she was educated. Due to the war in
Amidst the tempest’s rage and the barren hills,
The shepherd treads alone, the frost’s cold
No longer feared – spring’s warmth far behind.
Dr. Tzemin Ition Tsai, a seasoned poet from Taiwan, shares his poems
Dr. Tzemin Ition Tsai (born 1957) hails from a small fishing village along the southern coast of
Fehmi Ajvazi, an eminent author from Kosovo, has shared his book ‘In the Kingdom of Death’ published in Albanian in 2012 in Pristina, and in Romanian in 2019, and was translated from Albanian to English
Fehmi Ajvazi author
[In March 1999, the Serbian regime blanketed Kosovo with a contingent of 120,000 regular police,
Love is crazy, love is mad,
Knows no home, knows no border,
In an instant, at two places,
It is here and it is there.
Delo Isufi, a renowned poet from Albania, shares his poetry
Delo Isufi, born in Vlora on July 15, 1944, has lived in Tirana, Albania since 1953. After graduating from high school, from 1962-1966 he completed