The United Arab Emirates witnessed a series of prominent cultural and knowledge achievements in 2025, extending its approach to strengthening national identity, developing the cultural sector, ...

After the fall of the Soviet Union, a shared Persianate cultural heritage did not translate into Iranian influence in Central ...

Posts from Bethlehem, Gaza, Damascus, Dubai, and beyond show celebration, strain, and political messaging unfolding side by ...

In Damascus, Christmas celebrations are centred in the Bab Touma and Bab Sharqi districts, where churches such as Mariamite Cathedral (seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch) host ...

In 2025, Palestinian music, food and fashion transcended borders, transforming culture into a global language of resistance, ...

Travel journalist and Fulbright scholar Dan Fellner stops at EMU in December to provide a talk and visual experience for students while sharing perspectives on worldwide cultures. Titled "From Curry ...

On September 9, Israel shocked the world by bombing a villa in a residential neighborhood of Doha in an attempt to kill senior Hamas officials. It was the second time Qatar was struck this year. (In ...

Starbucks is selling a majority stake in its business in China after it struggled in the East Asian nation. But as the US chain has struggled, China’s coffee consumption has been “increasing by double ...

A New York Public Library exhibition features nearly two centuries of cultural, social and political artifacts on Middle Easterners and North Africans in the city. A New York Public Library exhibition ...

The Assyrian community, sometimes referred to as Syriacs, Chaldeans, or Arameans, represents one of the Middle East's oldest ethnic and cultural minorities, with roots in the Assyrian Empire (circa ...

Dozens of students gathered on Friday evening at the Middle Eastern and North African cultural suite to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Yale’s establishment of an official MENA “cultural ...