Category: Arts

Good and evil are only high and low on one string of god’s violin. There…

By Stuart Watson: This poem was inspired by the image of joyous citizens of Damascus carrying the severed sculptural head…

Poets and mystics had come to realize that Eternity exists outside the constraints of time and matter. It wasn’t some infinite future paradise.

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s life story isn’t widely known and few of us would be able to identify him from a photograph.

Two exhibitions reveal how, for the great Renaissance artists, drawing was both a tool for making paintings and a form of self-expression

by Phillis Wheatley Peters: For nobler themes demand a nobler strain, And purer language on th’ ethereal plain.

There in the park where I played as a kid I saw them painting the brown grass green. Just us early risers and the unfolding of…

Irshad Salim: 16 years ago (circa 2008) I flew from NJ to KHI on Etihad –after a hiatus of almost 6 yrs. The feeling was kinda homecoming.

Maria Callas is the latest star to be given the Hollywood treatment in a biopic, Pablo Larraín’s Maria, with Angelina Jolie in the title role.

For Hasna Henna and the Rohingya: My aunt once drew a comb through my hair steady; she wouldn’t let what feeds on blood eat my inner tree.

Forever I miss my Arab father’s way with mint leaves floating in a cup of sugared tea—his delicate hands arranging rinsed figs on a plate.

And yet so many others said yes. It began earlier this year, when someone I respect and like reached out to me. Their offer?