The former rebel stronghold of Jobar points to the challenges facing the new government as it embarks on rebuilding a broken country.

If you know about the Tibetan Book of the Dead, you probably already know that these three famous musicians were hugely inspired by its texts.

The trio join Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer in director Michael Sarnoski’s film about Robin Hood grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder.

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Ruled by Hades, the god of the underworld, the infernal rivers of Greek mythology are often mentioned in ancient literature.

The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

The next God of War is potentially heading to Egypt, and these are the gods and goddesses we want to meet when we get there.

Surprising, bold, and enduring… the history of eroticism in the Arab-Muslim world shines a spotlight on homosexuality and the ...

Her intimate conversations with a journalist were a hit in France in 1949. Now they finally come to the UK in Fearless and Free ...

He lays out the case for why such a system still represents “the best way to organize and direct the deep tensions that ...

Putting up a mezuzah in one’s doorway is a timeless and meaningful means of asserting proud Jewish identity. When it was ...

A nifty little book, “From the Browder File,” explains the origin of the word “negro.” Anthony Browder, the book’s author, ...