Middle East in Focus

On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in Tehran after being arrested by police. Amini was detained […]

It is a common belief that Islam forbids art that shows the human figure, but the issue is

This article, influenced by an essay by Louis Werner begins with a very brief discussion of the development

After several years of advocacy from Moroccan representatives, UNESCO officially inscribed tbourida, a North African cavalry performance, on

On December 5, 2022, various European outlets rumored that Portuguese soccer player and global superstar Cristiano Ronaldo agreed

The son of a duck is a swimmer. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree; or Like

A Podcast Master of Persian Music: Hossein Alizadeh with tar and sitar. Listen to a podcast from the

Let’s take a visual tour of two exquisite sixteenth-century Persian paintings, “A Camp Scene” and “Nighttime in a

The Middle East is often characterized by perpetual conflict, religious extremism, poor governance, and people torn apart by

US Open, Regional Expansion With the U.S. Open coming to a close last Sunday, September 10, conversations have