Adonis (poet)
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Ali Ahmad Said Esber, also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis, is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator. Maya Jaggi, writing for The Guardian stated "He led a modernist revolution in the second h
Adonis on 12 May 2011
Adonis at the Leselenz 2015 in Hausach
Adonis in Cracow 2011
Dayâ as wall poem in Leiden
Alawites
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Alawites are an ethnoreligious group, many of whom identify as Arabs, who live primarily in Syria and elsewhere in the Levant. They follow Alawism, an offshoot of Shia Islam as a ghulat branch during
Adonis (poet)
…He is an occasional contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born to a modest Alawite farming family in 1930, Adonis hails from the village of al-Qassabin near the city of Latakia in northwestern Syria. He was unable to afford formal…
Alawites celebrating at a festival in Baniyas, Syria during World War II
An Alawite falconer photographed by Frank Hurley in Baniyas, Syria during World War II.
Saleh al-Ali, leader of the Alawite revolt of 1919
An Alawite woman gleaning in 1938