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The Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities organized  a specialized forum course on “ The Music of Poetry”, supervised by Dr. Fawwaz Al Sherooqi, at the Al Khalifiyah Library, was held on 12 October 2019. The forum course, which will be held every Saturday until December 2019, sheds lights on Arabic poetry and its relationship with music, and how the birth of Meter in poetry is the overall rhythmic structure; Is "seas" really just another word for meter, or is there some significant difference between the "seas" of Arabic poetry and the meter of western poetry? Indeed, seas are made up of taf'ilah written according to adopted Arabic weights.

Worth to mention that Dr. Fawwaz Al Sherooqi has two collections of poems, one titled “ the “ The Eternity of Eyes”, and the second “ Close as  a Star, Far as a Kiss”, as well as novel titled “ Al Dafnah”. Al Sherooqi has taken part in many evenings of poetry held in Bahrain and abroad.

Bahrain Culture Authority aims through this “ Music of Poetry” forum to introduce participants to the principles of poetry writing in Arabic and its rhymes. This certainly would  provide the participant with the tools to practice poetry solely through hearing, turning ideas into poems and writing poems according to the correct Arabic weights. Participants will learn how Syllables come together to form the building block of poetry, something called a foot. So feet are one, two, three, or more syllables put together. These syllables can be in the same word, be across different words, or even start in the middle of one word and end in the middle of another; whatever the case may be. These are the basic units of poetry and when a poet writes, he doesn’t focus on words, but these feet. It’s also important to consider whether the syllables are short or long. So short-long, for example, is a different foot than long-long, even though they’re both disyllabic (have 2 syllables). The meters (Wazn, Awzan being forms of the Arabic poems units Bayt, Abyate) are, thus,  identified.