In 2010, the French burglar swiped five of the world's most renowned paintings in Paris. Now, after serving an eight-year sentence, he recounts the story in his own words in a new Netflix documentary.
The Sursock family found wealth in war and marriage, but later generations squandered it. Yet one thing endures: the Sursock Museum, now re-open three years after it was hit by the Beirut port blast.
The medieval Church produced a superstar. It is no surprise, therefore, there were already some 20,000 images of Saint Francis in existence within 100 years of his death
If his treatment of women or his cultural appropriations mean that we can't bear the sight of him, that implies something far more fatal to his continuing hold on our esteem: obsolescence
Minya, a Middle Egyptian governorate located south of Cairo on the western bank of the Nile, has history that dates back to the Predynastic Period (before 3100 BC).
It will celebrate the opening…
Last week, The Arab American National Museum (AANM), in Dearborn, Michigan, the home of the largest Arabic and Islamic communities in the US, hosted the annual Arab Film Festival, as part of other…
There is always a strong reason to come and see the biggest and the most beautiful museum in the world, The Louvre. Formerly a palace for France’s royalty located in the heart of Paris, the museum…
After the great Egyptian writer late Naguib Mahfouz was subjected to a failed assassination attempt in 1995, the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez sent him a letter in which he said, "The sun's…
With diplomatic channels open with the three major power centres—the US, Russia, and China—Saudi Arabia continues to navigate a delicate balance between economic pragmatism and security imperatives
Al Majalla interviewed the SDF commander who shared his thinking prior to the landmark decision, which also guarantees constitutional rights for Syrian Kurds
The US is applying maximum pressure on Ukraine's president to sign over its lithium, titanium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, tantalum, niobium, beryllium, gallium, and neon gas. But in return for what?
After a hugely important deal to integrate Syria's Kurds, there is a growing realisation among myriad factions that national unity is crucial for the country's survival
The district has welcomed Arab immigrants for decades. A crossroads of cultures, smelling and tasting of home, it is also a special place in the lives of Algerian singers Warda and Rachid Taha.