Jokha Alharthi, the first Arab author to win the Man Booker International Prize, has been lauded for writing a novel that delivers a cross-generational female perspective on life in a rapidly changing Oman.
Since it premiered July 9, a challenging new version of a classic Chinese play has seen dozens of people walk out. As staged at the Avignon festival, the set features a huge 4-ton wheel, symbolizing history crushing the Chinese people. Lao She’s epic “Teahouse,” recounting the tumultuous first five decades of the 20th century through three generations of a Chinese family, was one of Avignon’s most hotly anticipated shows.
With a wall of painted birds, Hassaan el Samad’s “Memorial to Wildlife,” hung in Saleh Barakat Gallery’s upstairs rooms, makes a plea to the people of Lebanon to respect their environment and the creatures that inhabit it.
Egypt Saturday opened two of its oldest pyramids, located about 40 kilometers south of the capital Cairo, to visitors for the first time since 1965.
In 1964, Stanley Kubrick, on the recommendation of the science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, bought a telescope.
The reality of her homeland’s lurch to the far-right has seen artists branded as leftists and criminals, laments Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy, who...
Lebanese pop star Wael Kfoury took the capital by storm Thursday night, with his concert to open the Beirut Holidays festival.
“The right to seize this image comes from the right of native peoples to expropriate the resources and capital stolen from them by colonialism - to include...
Social media users flocked to Facebook and Twitter over the weekend to voice their anger and admiration after Lebanese musician Marcel Khalife refused to play...
Saudi Arabia says hip-hop star Nicki Minaj will be performing there in the latest eye-popping announcement as the kingdom sheds decades of restrictions on...
Stevie Wonder surprised concertgoers in London Saturday night by announcing that he would take a break from performing so that he can receive a kidney...
Brazilians – most of them at least – are mourning the loss of Jo?o Gilberto, one of the inventors of bossa nova music, which gained worldwide popularity in...
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The Home Workspace Program of Ashkal Alwan (the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts) has just wrapped its eighth year.
If you’re going to see one comedy starring Kumail Nanjiani as an Uber driver, please make it the 2017 film he co-scripted, “The Big Sick.”
Sabine Choucair will assure any skeptics out there that clowning is no laughing matter.
I am not a Harry Hole junkie.
Visitors don’t just view the new London exhibition devoted to Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.
A vortex of color and light welcomes visitors entering “Watercolors,” the exhibition now up at Agial Art Gallery off Hamra.
“Body and Identity, Perception and Representation,” now up at ARTLAB, comprises a medley of pieces in different media by different artists.
Looted ancient artifacts from Iraq and Afghanistan and seized in Britain will be returned to their country of origin after appraisal by the British Museum,...
Peter Parker might be forgiven for craving a vacation as “Spider-Man: Far From Home” begins.
American jazz singer Melody Gardot turned old Heliopolis’ grand Bacchus Temple into an intimate venue for her Baalbeck International Festival performance...
Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum began a historic restoration of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch,” Monday, erecting a huge glass cage around the painting so the...
Makhar Vaziev’s workday begins before he sets foot inside his office in the famed Bolshoi Theater.
Singer, composer and oud maestro Marcel Khalife restored the City of the Sun’s meditative glory Friday evening, guiding his audience through a wistful roller...
In a Belfast museum, seamstresses are hard at work depicting gory battles and warring kings in shimmering threads of red and gold - an epic homage to a...
With artwork becoming an economy in and of itself, the first edition of Arab Art Fair hopes to offer more affordable prices for art lovers.
A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamun sold at auction in London for more than 4.7 million pounds Thursday, in the face of Egyptian demands for its...
Aficionados of Western classical music have carved out a niche for themselves in Iran, where cultural expression remains tightly controlled by strict rules...
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee voted Friday to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site after three decades of...
In a smoky back room of an old steel factory turned club, Ernesto Chahoud, Natalie Shooter and Jackson Allers are reminiscing, politely shouting over each...
Pakistan this week received nearly 450 ancient relics, some dating as far back as 4,000 B.C. French customs agents seized the objects from an unnamed Paris...