Morocco hosts 1st Arab poetry congress

The 1st congress of Arab poetry will be held this April 27-30 in Morocco's imperial city of Fez under the theme "Creative Continuity between the past and the future."

The congress, to be attended by nearly one hundred Arab poets and critics, will hear a number of presentations on the pecularities, aesthetic and thematic evolution of Arab peotry, the major Arab poetic trends and the various approaches in Arab criticism.