This paper examines how community arts in Sydney, Australia, have created new narratives of multiculturalism, focusing on the everyday diversity found in Sydney’s disadvantaged western suburbs. These narratives respond to the post-9/11 demonization of western Sydney and its multicultural communities, particularly Muslim and Arab-Australians. In contrast to the largely symbolic multiculturalism ...

with the aid of his genuine poetic imagination, nizami ganjavi created an everlasting masterpiece in persian literature through a local story named ‘leyli-va-majnoon’. his fantastic achievement inspired many poets to follow his model. on the other hand, william shakespeare picked the story of “romeo and juliet”, which was well-known in elizabethan england, transforming it to a celebrated romant...