An immersive photo poetry journal taking the reader through the spiritual and religious landscape of Morocco, known as the land of saints. Dziedzic succeeds in transporting us to a sacred realm through the meditative jewel-like verse, anecdotes and photos in the pages of this book.
Join us for the online launch of A Kaleidoscope of Stories, Muslim Voices in Contemporary Poetry on Sunday, January 31st at 11am PST/7pm GMT. It promises to be a thought provoking and spellbinding evening of verse, exploring topics…
A Kaleidoscope of Stories - Muslim Voices in Contemporary Poetry Book Review by Humera Khan, An-Nisa Society Where do you start with a collection of over 350 contemporary poetic contributions from 80 contributors? Do you read from beginning…
Heavenly Power holds the gift of light, proportioned in fathomless fashion to surge abundant showers. So every once in a year, The Almighty schedules the training of souls to fight. Eating, sleeping, speaking, hearing, touch and sight, runs…
"Poetry provides us with our truth. If a poet is not truthful it becomes very clear in a poem. Poets do not usually write for fame or fortune so poetry has an element of the sacred." Halee…
Today is a day to celebrate and promote language diversity, as it is International Mother Language Day - approved by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in the year 2000. Since then, the world has…
"The role of rhetoric, academic articles, of preachers on the pulpits are all indubitably and absolutely crucial in building the foundation of our community’s faith and Islamic identity, I won’t argue with that. However, even when combined, they…
Roundhouse Poetry Slam winner Rakaya Esime Fetuga discusses the interaction of faith, culture and expression in her work. A selection of Rakaya’s poetry will appear in the upcoming anthology A KALEIDOSCOPE OF STORIES – Muslim Voices in Contemporary…
Despite growing up in Egypt, with an Egyptian mother and Lebanese father, my literary influences were, primarily, Western- French, German, Russian poets and thinkers - that I read, in English translation. The notable exception was the inescapable Lebanese philosopher-poet-painter…