Beirut/Damascus: In 1785, an unknown Shiite prelate from Jabal Amal in today’s southern Lebanon, travelled to the city of Baghdad.Salah Ibn Ibrahim…

Paris: This year the world faces complex challenges, new opportunities and tough questions. Some of these questions surround the relationship between…

Paris: There are three main reasons that Ghassan Salamé cites, as he surveys the current international scene, that make him “deeply concerned” about…

Society and the characteristics of an era are constantly at odds. They are two sides of an equation whose constant friction drives "progress" or, say…

“There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through a tunnel, in it darkness,…

London: Much like the weather in the city of smog, the Arab cultural landscape in the United Kingdom was rather gloomy in the last days of 2022.Two…

What happens to words when they are written down? Are there nuances from their sounds that get left out?“In the beginning was the word.” So goes the…

Here lies the city of AlUla in the west of Saudi Arabia — a quiet oasis that once lied in the folds and creases of history, falling sound asleep in…

London: Whenever the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), popularly known as the Arabic Booker, releases its long and shortlists, debate…

In November last year, a groundbreaking new technology called ChatGPT emerged, sparking the curiosity of people across the globe. When it was…