Diva: From Umm Kulthum to Dalida, showing at Beirut’s Sursock Museum, celebrates legendary singers, actresses and dancers ...

From the call to prayer echoing through the city of the Arabic calligraphy, Dubai tells stories of ancient customs mixed with modern interpretations. Experience hospitality through sharing traditional ...

The UAE National Orchestra has announced the guest artists and January performance dates for "The Beginning," its inaugural concert series, marking the first time the Orchestra’s full ensemble of 70 ...

Susan Boynton looks at this, along with bibliophilia, libraries, and the study of medieval liturgy in her new book.

An artistic reconstruction of a herd of ancient sea cows foraging on the seafloor. Note to editors: Photos of the Al Maszhabiya site and fossils, an artist’s reconstruction of the new species in life ...

Smithsonian researchers and collaborators at Qatar museums describe a sea cow bonebed in Qatar that is among the richest deposits of marine mammal fossils in the world Salwasiren was a miniature ...

Bollywood has always been a melting pot of cultures, especially when it comes to music. Over the decades, Hindi cinema has borrowed, blended and beautifully reimagined sounds from around the world.

Saudi studio Telefaz11, the groundbreaking label behind hit dark comedy “Mandoob” and burgeoning music entertainment platform Mdlbeast – which organizes Saudi’s popular Soundstorm music festival –have ...

The dry deserts of north-eastern Saudi Arabia were once wet enough to host vibrant communities of animals – and researchers have just found evidence that ancient hominins lived there too. “This paper ...

The petroglyphs were discovered in prominently visible locations on cliff sides and boulder facades.(all photos via Nature Communications per CC BY 4.0) A trove of life-sized animal rock engravings ...

Sprawled across much of the Arabian Peninsula, today’s Arabian Desert is known for brutal heat, dry, harsh winds and scarce water—hardly hospitable to human settlers unaided by air conditioning and a ...

About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to mark the ...