Muscat: Well-known Omani poet Zahir Al Ghafri has died at the age of 68 in Sweden after a prolonged illness. Al Ghafri was regarded as one of the most influential figures in the Sultanate of Oman’s ...

What exactly constitutes a poem? To some contemporary writers ... the literary techniques employed by world-famous poets needn’t be known nor completely understood in order to enjoy the wonders of ...

But responding to the news, former minister for "common sense" Esther McVey posted a famous Martin Niemöller poem about inaction ... the silent complicity of the German intelligentsia and clergy ...

According to Ren Xiaolong, general manager of the NCPA orchestra, it will be nearly 130-strong by the end of this year, in ...

Modern history’s first written work to win an Olympic gold medal was “Ode to Sport,” a prose poem by Georges Hohrod and M ... these plans were interrupted by the recurrence of another famous event ...

“If I should die, think only this of me: that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England,” As several ...

Spurs team-mates Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle, as Glenn & Chris, had a No 12 hit with the song Diamond Lights. They became ...

Albert Einstein's relationship with Oxford is a complex one. While the city proved to be a haven from Nazi Germany in 1933, he did not settle in Oxford for long. As Andrew Robinson writes in his new ...

Beautiful to look at and incredible in sound – here the greatest pieces written for the harp in classical music history.

Less is More’ is a well-known architectural phrase popularised by German American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ...