Culture | Academic session in Rabat discusses Moroccan and Arabic poetry - Al-Oبوع Al-Sihafi

The city of Rabat is preparing to host an academic session titled: "Rabat in Moroccan and Arabic Poetry," organised by the "House of Poetry" in Morocco with the participation of a select group of Moroccan researchers, critics, scholars, and poets, on the 23rd and 24th of this October.This cultural initiative, which falls under the programme of events accompanying the selection of Rabat as the World Book Capital for 2026, seeks to shed light on the relationship between poetry and space, and to explore the representations of the city in poetic texts, with a focus on the presence of Rabat in Moroccan and Arabic creativity, and the aesthetic and symbolic connotations it carries in the literary imagination. The session's programme is divided into five sessions that combine critical interventions, intellectual readings, and poetic experiences, through four main themes including poetry and spa…