On 3 September, the Saudi Research and Media Group (SRMG) launched Asharq Documentary — a new Arabic-language documentary channel with dedicated in…

The trajectory of an artist's legacy can be profoundly altered by their death.Vincent Van Gogh's brilliance with a brush went unrecognised until…

Saudi Arabia has officially submitted its bid to host the World Expo 2030 in Riyadh.In the letter of candidacy to the Bureau International des…

Beirut: Not too long ago, the “nostalgia epidemic” claimed more lives than direct warfare.Today, it seems to hold the present and the future hostage…

When Sawsan al-Bahiti took to the stage of the King Fahad Cultural Centre in June 2019, she became the first female Saudi opera singer to perform —…

American scholar Kate Eichhorn, assistant professor and Chair of Culture and Media Studies at The New School in New York believes that forgetting has…

Beirut: In the wake of Lebanese artist Mohammad Jamal’s death on 26 May, his cousin Faek Homaissi, the actor and pioneer of mime in Lebanon, penned a…

Through his personality, lyrics, melodies and performances, Talal Maddah put on a visual and lyrical show that uniquely reflected the Saudi music…

Dreams of a free, progressive and prosperous Sudan were popularised by the country’s two greatest literary geniuses. Although much time has passed…

Musa al-Shami, hailing from the southern town of Jarjoua, spoke candidly about the state of the country in a two-minute and seventeen-second audio…