‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Syrian poet, critic and artist Adonis has been described as the greatest living Arab poet. He was the first Arab to win the German Goethe Prize last year at the age of 81, whose judges described ...

The Syrian poet Adonis has become the first Arab writer to win Germany's prestigious Goethe prize. The 81-year-old poet, a perennial favourite to win the Nobel prize for literature, was presented with ...

Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the bubonic plague closed the theatres in London for 18 months. In Shakespeare’s poem Venus, the Roman ...