Riot police force protestors back across the Kasr Al Nile Bridge as they attempt to get into Tahrir Square on January 28, 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt. [Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images] Exactly 15 ...

The Arab world’s biggest football competition kicks off on Monday, as 16 teams from across the region face off in Qatar. Qatar is staging the Arab Cup for the third time; it hosted the 1998 and 2021 ...

Posts circulating on social media claim Mamdani is expected to introduce new rules when he becomes New York Mayor in 2026 that will require all public elementary schools in the state to learn Arabic ...

In mid-November 2025, a rumor spread on X that New York City's Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would be introducing "Arabic numerals" to schools in the city. One post from the account of the prediction ...

One Thousand and One Nights is the framing device for the author’s pithy and thought provoking takes on everything from eugenics to trouser suits In the framing device that opens the Middle Eastern ...

The all-new intro sequence for Apple TV was made with practical effects and shot in-camera, Ad Age reports. Rather than using digital techniques, the new sequence was made by shooting large glass ...

Arab governments that for decades have been fierce advocates for the Palestinian cause are now facing criticism for their timid response to the extreme suffering in Gaza caused by Israel's war, ...

UBS Group AG has ended a multimillion dollar contract with BlackRock Inc.’s Aladdin technology platform that it inherited from Credit Suisse, as the Swiss bank continues to integrate its former ...

“Aladdin” star Mena Massoud, who is a Canadian actor of Egyptian heritage, recently starred in — and produced — his first Arabic-language film “In Broad Daylight.” In the action movie, he plays an ...

An introduction to the Arabic translation of Paul Mattick's 1959 essay "Nationalism and Socialism" by Jamal Abu Yusuf. The original, with Mattick's text, can be found here. I undertook the translation ...

This is definitely the age of new adaptations — and we’ve got another one on the horizon. A new version of the Middle Eastern folktale Aladdin, titled Aladdin: The Monkey’s Paw will begin production ...