Allow me to start this piece with a caveat: although I understand and speak decent Arabic and spent years reading the Arab press and watching Arab television, I have never lived a substantial amount ...

Egyptian anti-government protesters chant slogans as they stand atop an Egyptian army tank during a protest in Tahrir square in Cairo on Jan. 29, 2011. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP) ‘Tis the season to ...

AMMAN — The richness of the Jordanian culture shined last month, as musical prodigy Layth Sidiq seized the second place in the international Seifert Zbigniew Jazz Violin Competition held in Poland.

VAIL – When people talk about the Middle East they usually say things like, “it’s complicated.” It isn’t, says Christopher Hill, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. “Arab Spring now seems to be morphing ...

All over the Middle East and Arab world, violent and non-violent civil resistance was forming. In 2010, a new term was coined for this regional revolt- “The Arab Spring”. Arguably, the most famous ...

From the initial protests in Cairo and the celebrations in Tahrir Square to being one of the first journalists to enter Libya, NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro has been reporting the stories of revolution ...

Tom Spencer analyses in depth the background and context of the Arab revolutions, the European Union's "flabby diplomacy" and the repercussions these developments will have on the EU's political ...

BEIRUT: Samir Khalaf and Roseanne Saad Khalaf have assigned themselves the daunting task of framing the most important and enduring issues relevant to Arab society and culture. Their 545-page edited ...

In 2020, Toronto-based Palestinian-Jordanian composer Shireen Abu Khader founded Dozan World—an offshoot of Dozan wa Awtar Music Establishment, the celebrated choir she established in 2002—as a hub ...

Perplexity and despair seem to be the two sentiments that most often define peoples attitudes to the mayhem in Syria. The fighting by an expanding range of Syrians, backed by a regional and global web ...