Lost amid the azure depths of 1,500 years of Arabic prose? Don't know al-Qais from Darwish? Then start here A portrait painted on a street in Beirut by artist Yazan Halwani in January 2014 depicts the ...

A previously unknown Swedish translation of the Egyptian author Taha Husein’s famous autobiography al-Ayyam (The Days) has been found by Göran Larsson, professor of religious studies at the University ...

The first Arabic language version of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant‘s British comedy classic The Office will air in the Middle East later this year, following a deal struck between license holder ...