‘A creator always has to be with what’s revolutionary, but he should never be like the revolutionaries. He can’t speak the same language or work in the same political environment’. Interview by Maya ...

In March, 2011, when civil protests broke out in cities and towns across Syria, the country’s most famous poet, Adonis—who is in his eighties and has lived in exile since the ...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden (AFP) — Noted Syrian poet Adonis, whose name surfaces regularly as a top contender for the Nobel literature prize, says religious fanaticism is “destroying the heart of the Arab ...

This week we've picked a poem by the man known as the greatest living poet of the Arab world - Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, better known by his pen name Adonis. Born in 1930, the Syrian adopted his pseudonym ...

SHANGHAI, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- A cruise ship carrying poets from various countries was sailing on the Huangpu River on Tuesday night when the first Golden Magnolia Award of the Shanghai International ...

As a school student Ali Ahmad -- no, Adonis -- joins the Syrian National Socialist Party: Not to be confused with Hitler’s party; it is a secular democratic party and is targeted by the repressive ...

BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Syrian poet Adonis, a master of Arabic literature, wrote poems with calligraphy brush in Beijing to express his passion for Chinese culture on Saturday. Adonis, who again ...

Noted Syrian poet Adonis, whose name surfaces regularly as a top contender for the Nobel literature prize, says religious fanaticism is "destroying the heart of the Arab world", but sees salvation in ...