How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum.

Exactly how many master­pieces are held in community-based collections like the Abbey’s is anyone’s guess – as are the safeguards around them – and veteran curator Mr Strong says that’s not good ...

Safaa Abdel-Razek, Searching for Mamdouh Shokry: The Dawn Visitor, Cairo: Al-Maraya, 2026. pp127 In one of the many books that attempt to chronicle the lives and careers of Egyptian artists and ...

A new peer-reviewed article offers an alternative reading of the famous Gospel story that saw Jesus flipping the tables of ...

The Eastern Conference will be extremely competitive in 2026.

The ancient Cairo quarter of Al-Hussein is a vibrant hub for worshippers and visitors alike in Ramadan, also bearing witness ...

The American civil rights icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson, died on Feb. 17 at the age of 84. His advisor, James Zogby, a pollster and co-founder of the Arab American Institute, traveled with Jackson ...

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s greatest modern poet, fell in love with a Jewish Israeli woman named Tamar Ben-Ami in the early 1960s – a relationship that inspired some of the most celebrated Arabic ...

Yet, beneath the surface lies a complex web of dependencies that offer US leverage that a true alternative plan must address, Netanyahu’s plan and alternatives like those from Michael Oren and Nava ...

Stan Andrews begins life as Stan Anekstein, the son of Jewish immigrants in the Bronx. He loves drawing. He loves movies. He ...

At best, any casual music consumer would find the avant-garde work of musician, composer, and bandleader Sun Ra transportive.

Scientists admit a massive gravity anomaly beneath Antarctica as restricted zones, pyramid formations and celestial events ...