Nizar Qabbani was the most popular and beloved Arab poet of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born in Damascus in 1923. He started out as a romantic poet, with daring poems of love ...

Its originator, Giacomo da Lentini, was a poet in the Kingdom of Sicily who had been inspired by older Arabic and French poetry ... gesture is either platonic, romantic or a little of both.

The formal register of the Arabic language, or Classical Arabic, developed before the Islamic era during a period in which poetry was the ... the uniqueness of their romantic expression.

The lost Arab poetry that lives on in Hebrew - The people ... or even Britain’s heady Romantic movement – but was a half-Arab, half-Persian scholar from the early age of Islam?

But what if I told you that poetry’s biggest hedonist wasn’t from the Bacchanalian ancient world, or even Britain’s heady Romantic movement – but was a half-Arab, half-Persian scholar from ...