Sun City awaits rise of “Africa’s Got Talent”

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid Asia Journalists Association President SUN CITY, SOUTH AFRICA: Sun City, South Africa, will host the official launch of the mega TV competition “Africa’s Got Talent” on November 26. The shining rays of African talents in a dozen of categories will rise from 54 countries to give birth of a new spirit to the […]
The Silk Road Anthology: Nano Poems for Africa
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: Nano is a combining form with the meaning “very small or minute,” used in the formation of compound words; so (nano-poems) means very short poems. Short poems have been written in different forms, under the umbrella of varied names. For example, the haiku is a Japanese poetic […]
First Racoda Asian Film Festival prizes announced
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: The 1st edition of Racoda Asian Film Festival Prizes were announced by head of the jury committee Omani director, Dr. Khaled Abdel Rahim Al Zadjali. The jury had Lebanese actress and star Madeleine Tabar, Egyptian writer and novelist Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, Egyptian director Dina Abdel Salam, Kuwaiti director […]
Focus on festival that gave the World Poetry Movement

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalists Association MEDELLIN: A contribution by Ashraf Aboul-Yazid on the festival that inspired the creation of the World Poetry Movement and other international poetry festivals inside and outside Colombia was featured in the Congress of African Journalists International Magazine. The August 2022 edition, published in Nigeria, the headquarters of the […]
A Street in Cairo, into Russian

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, President, Asia Journalists Assoicaiation CAIRO: Next month, Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, will host the signing ceremony of the poetic anthology “A Street in Cairo” by Ashraf Aboul-Yazid. The anthology, translated by the Azerbaijani poet Eldar Akhadov into Russian, is published in the Silk Road Literature Series. The book is a selection of several […]
Rakoda Asian Film Festival honors Indian director Satyajit Rai

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: The management of the Rakoda Asian Film Festival announced the honoring of the late Indian director Satyajt Rai, whose centenary is celebrated by the Indian and international artistic community, which falls in 2021, and was postponed due to the Corona pandemic until this year. Imad Al-Nuwairi, […]
Silk Road Literature Serie’s “Arabian Nights, World Poems” digitally published in two parts

Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: The new edition of the Silk Road Literature Series ANTHOLOGY “Arabian Nights, World Poems” has been digitally published in two parts, to cover the contributions of 156 poets from more than 40 and 15 languages. Poems are written in different languages including Arabic, Russian, English, French, Italian, German, […]
At the opening of Medellín Poetry Festival, it rains world poems

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, President of Asia Journalists Association MEDELLÍN: The Medellín International Poetry Festival opened its XXXII edition on Saturday with a rain of poems to celebrate the reunion with the public on the return to the event after taking refuge in virtuality for two years due to the pandemic. At the Carlos Vieco open-air […]