GHAZAL, the most popular genre of Urdu’s lyrical poetry, has not only survived attacks from critics but has in fact grown in popularity. Originating from Arabic ‘qaseeda’, or panegyric ode, ghazal ...

Your all-time favourite ghazals are readily available for viewing on YouTube. You can also visit Gaana.com, Wynkmusic and Saregama apps and listen to ghazal songs online.

In the course of my journey with Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib’s Divans, I noticed how he carefully chose verses from his ghazals when he made the selection for publication. For example, the very first ...

It’s not an animal that resembles an elk and runs quickly. A ghazal is a type of poem. Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic ...

Ali Shir Navai (left) exposed Persian ghazals to the extinct Chagatai language and Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah (right) was an early practitioner of Urdu ghazals in India The trajectory of the ghazal is ...

Rafiki Jazz were born as a meeting of Yorkshire-based jazz musicians with migrant and refugee musicians. Their new album experiments with music from the Middle East, from Coptic hymns to Sufi ghazal ...