I Won’t Find Another You: Their best love poems face our hard times
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: “I Won’t Find Another You” ; a bilingual anthology of best love poems in English and Hindi, has been published recently. I am grateful to editor and poet Thangjam Misna Chanu (Misna Chanu) who gave me the chance to read the English poems and write the back […]
Pakistani poet Imdad Aakash visits Egypt
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: Pakistani poet Imdad Aakash , one of the most famous Urdu writers and composers of Gazal poems, is visiting Egypt. Imdad Aakash was selected as the coordinator of the World Poetry Movement (WPM) in Pakistan, which was a bridge to our meeting in Cairo, after asking the […]
152 World Poets write Nano Poems for Africa
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: Authors of the Silk Road Anthology, who joined (Nano Poems for Africa), edited by Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, came from almost 50 countries in Africa (Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, Mali, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and South Africa), Asia (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Jammu and Kashmir, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, […]
World Organization of Writers (WOW) born in Cairo
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: World writers and poets signed a Memorandum of Intention to create the World Organization of Writers (WOW) in Cairo, as an initiative raised by the VI Eurasian Literary Festival of Festivals held in Egypt across January and February 2023. For the first time, the idea of […]
World Poetry Movement First Asian Congress on Feb. 25-26
Cairo Correspondent: The coordinating committee of the World Poetry Movement (WPM – Asia) announced that the First Asian Congress of the World Poetry Movement (WPM) will be held online this month. The 1st WPM Asian Congress will be held on February 25-26, 2023, starting at 05.00 GMT to explore and celebrate poetry in Asia, to picture […]
2022 AOA Awards go to Soprano Lee Kyung-Sook, 17 other cultural artists
By Seok-Jae Kang, Asia Journalists Association Vice President SEOUL: Korean soprano Lee Kyung-sook and 17 other cultural artists and organizations have been honored with the 2022 AOA Awards for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of Korean culture and art. Sop. Lee Kyung-sook, who serves as chairperson of the Seoul Art Song Association (SASA), received the […]
The Eurasian Cultural Spaces: An Interview
Sameh Hussein & Nermin Amer CAIRO: On January 24, the days of the E began in Urasian Peoples’ Assembly and the VI Eurasian Literary Festival LIffTEgypt, which are held by the International Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly and the Foundation for the Promotion of Literary Projects of the Eurasian Peoples “LIffT” and […]
15 African Poetry Ambassadors to attend World Poetry Movement Congress in Medellin, Caracas
Correspondent, CAIRO: In the crucial search for the unity of the poetic forces of Africa, and to make much more visible the immense contribution of the poetry of that continent to the world, the Virtual Congress of the World Poetry Movement (WPM) Africa was held on January 21-22, 2023. About 50 poets attended the 2 days […]
WPM Africa Congress, Migration from Death to Life
A section of the participants By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: In Africa, millions are suffering a lot. Their lives have trampled over them with so critical problems. They are threatened by poverty, crushed by unemployment, wars, and disease overcomes them. The statistics tell us a lot about the aggravation of humanity’s problems […]
My Cat Writes a Book
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid CAIRO: The special pleasure of receiving the prominent Sawiris Cultural Award for Children Literature was that it was my first award in Egypt, my homeland! I have been awarded and honored several times around the world. There were international recognitions with the 2014 Manhae Grand Prize in Literature (South Korea), the 2015 Arab Journalism Award in Culture (UAE), […]