Emirati poet Abdulaziz Jasim's landmark 1995 poetry collection, No Need for Me, is among the acclaimed bodies of work in Arabic poetry. It introduced…
A modernist third-wave poet, Nouri al-Jarrah has found solace in verse wherever he has lived, be that Damascus, Beirut, Cyprus, or London—the latter,…
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Saudi filmmaker Meshal Aljaser’s latest film, Naga (Arabic for camel), is currently streaming on Netflix after premiering at the Toronto…
Saudi literary critic and intellectual Saad Al-Bazai was born in 1953 in the northern Saudi city of Al Qurayyat. He moved to Riyadh and then to the…