The ancient Silk Road entered the memory of history not merely as a route traversed by caravans carrying material wealth, but as a spiritual bridge that connected the cultures, literatures, and arts of diverse peoples. Along this bridge, the Eastern nations developed a shared aesthetic imagination and philosophical vision of the world, rooted in common moral and spiritual values. Thus, even as geographical borders shifted, the deeper language of cultures remained remarkably c

Illustration: AI In contemporary Portuguese literature, few voices intertwine mythology, spirituality, and intimate confession as organically as Isilda Nunes. A poet and visual artist, Nunes creates works that transcend artistic boundaries, transforming poetry into a ritual of remembrance, resistance, and inner transformation. Her latest collection, Litania aos Deuses que me abandonaram (Litany to the Gods Who Abandoned Me), continues this poetic journey, inviting readers int

Illustration: AI Poetry rarely travels alone. Its metaphors, rhythms, and silences often transcend the written page, finding unexpected forms in other arts. Such is the case with A Train Crosses the Desert, the evocative poem by Egyptian writer Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, which inspired Pakistani filmmaker Rahul Aijaz to create a short film bearing the same title. Yet the relationship between poem and film is far more complex than a conventional adaptation. Rather than translating ve

Illustration: AI Giorgio Linguaglossa raises a crucial question about the concept of art: «How and where to orient the search for the new poetic language?». After the end of the modern era and of every modernist aesthetic ontology, decreed by Zygmunt Bauman and contemporary new sociology, every post-modernist meta-philosopher - like Jencks with architecture, Danto with art or Fukuyama with history - is tempted to impose the definitive sanction of death sentence on the object

Illustration: AI Since the French philosopher Henri Bergson introduced his conception of memory as a living duration in which temporal layers interpenetrate within human consciousness, memory has no longer been understood as a mere reservoir of past images; it has come to be seen as a dynamic temporal fabric that permeates the present and continuously reshapes it. Bergson distinguished between mechanical memory, linked to habit, and pure memory, rooted in the depth of lived e

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Illustration: AI Sheikh Mohamed Belkhair (1830–1898) stands as one of Algeria’s most renowned folk poets, celebrated for his profound...

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