Back in 2000, the Jerusalem International Oud Festival was a modest two-day affair when home venue CEO and artistic director ...

Lebanese singer Maher Jah stays firmly in the classic Arabic love-song tradition in this ballad comparing a lover’s face to the moon and her eyes to a cloudless, starlit sky. The warm delivery and ...

Egyptian singer Amal Maher took to the Cairo Opera House stage on Thursday for a sold-out concert at the 34th Arab Music ...

Cairo Opera House inaugurated the 34th edition of the Arab Music Festival in Cairo on Tuesday evening with a special concert titled “Hany Shaker Night" ...

This is the third installment of a series introducing the chapters of 'Middle East: On Street Corners with Cafes,' published ...

A recent letter writer wrote that he usually reads my column "with admiration and amusement." Huzzah--he's the one! But my ...

An Egyptian expression of reassurance became the foundation for M3lesh UK, a community initiative creating spaces for ...

A systematic review of 39 studies finds that sumud, the Arabic concept of steadfastness, offers psychiatry a collective, culturally embedded model of resilience with concrete implications for ...

The Al-Nouri Mosque and its Al-Hadba Minaret, the Convent of Our Lady of the Hour, and Al-Tahera Church were rebuilt, while ...

The once-thriving Lebanese Jewish community has been largely forgotten in the decades since most of them left the country.

Earlier this year, Suad Bushnaq became the first Arab woman composer to be invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts ...

With the completion of Phase One of a $2.275-million renovation project, the George Weston Recital Hall at Meridian Arts ...