Culture

Love, poetry and pan-Arabism: The broken dream of Balqis and Nizar

Every year, Arab scholars commemorate the 1981 assassination of Balqis al-Rawi, wife of poet Nizar Qabbani. He stopped writing about love - and the Arab world was never the same

Lebanon gets Oscar nod for Nadine Labaki's Capernaum

Kadim el-Sahir: The Caesar of Arabic song wows London

Baghdad's lord of the dance keeps troupe alive through war and chaos

Portraits in coffee: Jordanian artist draws life from the cup

'A gunshot, a speech, a whisper': The art detectives exposing Middle East crimes

Egypt unearths untouched 4,400-year-old tomb of ancient high priest

Stolen goods: Britain's museums must hand back colonial plunder

Ruqaya Izzidien

Jordan's al-Samer dance added to UNESCO list of 'intangible' heritage traditions

Palestinian prisoners' craft of love: 'Embroidery is not just for women'

Blaming the West is not enough: We too are responsible for this calamity

Palestinians exorcise ghosts of Israeli torture in haunting docudrama

A London dance production of Layla and Majnun reveals an ancient tale of love