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Pashto and Dari Persian. Dari Persian is the most common language, with 78% of people in Afghanistan able to speak the language. Pashto is second, with 35% of Afghans speaking the language. A country ...
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A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia ...
A new poetry collection, Finding Home, written by Rhys Campbell and illustrated by Elijah Bean, is set for release on May 13. A spokesperson said, “Finding Home is a poetic journey through the ...
(If you’re just joining us, this is the third day of our Poetry Challenge. There’s plenty of time to catch up, but you may want to start on Day 1.) But there’s a lot more to see. Those words ...
Serving the nation since 1947 by providing an accurate, objective, uninterrupted flow of news to the people, the national news service is pursuing a comprehensive strategy to transform the existing ...
As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day - read May Day by Gabriel Rosenstock below.
Poetry Out Loud is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV ...
He said that Allama Iqbal’s poetry, philosophy and vision played a crucial role in inspiring the movement for the creation of Pakistan. “Known as the “architect of the idea of Pakistan” in Pakistan’s ...
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s sprawling meditation on gynaecological morality, which literal-minded distributors really have held back until TS Eliot’s “cruellest month”, is quite unlike anything ...
One Irish man, Arun Sharma, explains how his upcoming poetry book has given him pause for reflection on his experiences growing up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and become catharsis for the ...
My encounter with Spanish-Latin American poetry began entirely by chance. In 1959, I was admitted to the Department of Chinese Language and literature at Peking University (PKU) but was redirected ...