Culture

Nancy Ajram under fire for song featuring Egypt's Sisi

Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram is being criticised for her new song which praises, and features, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Crazy for Eurovision? Madonna faces backlash over performance in Israel

Taylor Swift megafan hailed as a 'legend' after being arrested in Israel for refusing to join the army

The Algerian artists capturing the spirit of protest

Meet the Iraqi driver with a no phones policy in his taxi

Campaigners urge authors at UAE book festival to raise human rights issues

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

Shathil Nawaf Taqa

Remember the time when Europe 'discovered' the miswak?

Tourist captures amazing views from top of pyramids

'The Factory': Play explores murky nexus of western business and Syrian war

Meeting the 'other': A British Jewish actor's search for voices of Palestine-Israel

The British Museum's new gallery: A history of Islam in over a thousand objects

Behjat Sadr: Iran's 'pioneer of visual arts' gets first exhibition in London

'We are people of the sea': Syria's last wooden-boat builders

'You have to go deeper': Islamic art comes alive at Jameel prize in London

Food, art and literature: How Israel is stealing Arab culture

Nada Elia

'They have a right to understand': Syrian children’s author on stories of war

Cruising through Jordan with 'Nancy', the vintage Mercedes covered in books

Safar: A journey of discovery into Arab cinema's past and present

In the shadow of 9/11 with director Ali Selim: 'Islam has been hijacked'

'The rise of geekdom': Lebanon's gamers see lucrative future in growing sector