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

'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

The man behind the curtain: Cairo's puppet master brings his 'children' to life

'Tints of Resilience': Syrian and Lebanese artists confront grief and loss

Why do they hate us? How the West creates its own enemies

Marco Carnelos

The toxic legacy of VS Naipaul

Haidar Eid

'A life without war': Iran's booming art scene comes to London

Riding the Korean wave: K-pop’s growing Beirut fanbase feels the 'flow'

'I still feel the need for resistance in my writing': Sudanese author Leila Aboulela