JEDDAH: The Saudi Ministry of Culture is to stage the Tarafa bin Al-Abd Festival from Nov. 16 to 24 in Al-Ahsa.
The event aims to highlight the life, career, and works of the poet and is part of the Arab Poetry Path initiative launched by the ministry to celebrate the symbols of Arabic poetry and the significance of the seven odes, which represent the best of early Arabic literature.
Al-Abd, a sixth-century poet from the Bakr tribe, was one of the seven renowned poets featured in the…
