Access to internet in Iran is being increasingly stifled as next month’s presidential elections loom, users and experts have said. Although authorities deny claims of a government crackdown on the web,...

Love, betrayal, espionage: together, the three make for a winning combination, especially when it’s set to the well-known 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis story told from the rare perspective of an...

Jack Persekian, the director of the new Palestinian Museum scheduled to open in Birzeit late next year, strikes a note of caution when discussing the political significance of the planned...

It’s not hard to find critics of the Assad government in the Governorate (Muhafazat) of Homs or for that matter, to varying degrees in Syria’s other thirteen Governorates according to...

A Saudi woman, Raha Muharraq, on Saturday reached the summit of Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women's sports are severely restricted,...

The last decade in Lebanon has seen a diverse alternative music scene growing and juxtaposing itself to the "ya habibi" pop scene, plastic surgery obsession and glam life of Beirut....