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…

Beirut: Paul Chaoul is plentiful, diverse, full of ideas, and problematic. He is experimental in the eyes of classicism, but a modernist in its…

Strange wars are being fought over the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, with popular Lebanese singer Carole Samaha most recently being accused…

With the price of fuel in Lebanon reaching astronomical levels, the vast majority of the Lebanese are struggling. Fuel has gone from something that…

Rolling Stone’s list of the 200 greatest singers of all time has sparked angry criticism for excluding many notable singers and focusing mostly on…