With none of the crowds but much of the mystique of Jordan’s Petra facades, Hegra is a history-rich highlight in newly ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk outside a morgue in Damascus ... and John Boozman, as well as staffers ...

The great English poet, John Milton, explained why this is inevitable ... there was a great flood of news providers into Damascus, but I am not sure that their reports made us much the wiser.

Michael Doucet is breaking out his fiddle to join former Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith in a first-ever ...

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, surrounded by death and torture, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry ... a cell wall in Damascus’ notorious ...

By John Lopez John Lopez | The Hollywood Reporter ... Lynch’s keen eye for the reality of Los Angeles. He was the poet laureate this city never knew it had. We just never realized it because ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

DAMASCUS - The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday meetings he had with Syria's new leaders in Damascus were a first step towards ending years of ...

in the infamous Palestine Branch detention facility, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. More Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo Some inmates turned to poetry, quoting verses like, "When you wage ...