The second day of the 9th Faiz Festival turned the Alhamra Arts Centre into a vibrant hub of cultural exchange, intellectual discourse and mesmerising performances. With a massive turnout, including ...

Urdu poetry is well renowned for its rich past, enormous beauty, and complexity in expressions. For those willing to start to ...

Though the number of pilgrims at Maha Kumbh is many times more than at Haj, a lot can be learned from the “crowd management” ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

A Stomper shared with Stomp that he was one of more than 120 pilgrims whose Umrah pilgrimage was affected by a flight disruption. Umrah is a mini Islamic religious pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia ...

JOHOR BARU, Jan 20 — The owner of umrah agency Hejira Travel & Tours Holding Sdn Bhd and his wife were detained by the Johor police contingent last Saturday in connection with another fraud case ...

Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) has issued new guidelines requiring meningitis vaccination for Hajj and Umrah pilgrims, in line with Saudi Arabia’s updated health regulations. This ...

And though Trump refrained from inviting a poet to speak at his first inauguration, in 2017, poets across America read protest poetry, organising evenings of resistance. Carol Ann Duffy ...

MUSCAT: Citizens and residents planning to perform Umrah rituals must take the quadrivalent meningitis vaccine, the Ministry of Health said. They must take it at least 10 days before travelling to ...