Soprano Sawsan Al-Bahiti’s battle to bring opera to Saudi Arabia is ongoing but going well. While Europe has been sold on the genre she loves since…

Seven months after Hezbollah and Israel increased their attacks on one another across the Israeli-Lebanese border, the Lebanese government has still…

There are multiple attempts to discredit student protests on university campuses calling for the liberation of Palestine and calling on their…

It seems a long time since Turkey’s economic growth expanded at around 8% per year in the early days of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule. These…

The beginning of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel were announced by Mohammad Deif, head of its military wing—the Al-Qassam Brigades—in an audio…

The Syrian regime's consistent refusal to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees has driven Lebanese authorities to intensify their deportation…

For a man who has always regarded himself more as a war leader than a mere politician, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu will see the…

Following numerous threats, the Israeli army finally invaded Rafah, the last place in the Gaza Strip its ground forces had not yet entered. Israeli…

Istanbul-born writer Defne Suman evokes the city and its changes in her novel The Circle and sets The Silence of Scheherazade in the Ottoman Empire…