Heritage Music of the Arab World' is a series by Ahram Online, in partnership with the AMAR Foundation (Foundation For Arab ...

The final stop is Aswan where we visit the famous dam, which is Egypt’s modern marvel of engineering, as well as a Nubian ...

Eight years later, in 1956, a furious President Eisenhower forced a resolution through the United Nations condemning Israel’s ...

Cleo – Of Greek origin, meaning “glory,” “to be praised,” and “the celebrated one.” Cleo is a short form of Cleopatra, the ...

Maha recounts, "The war has changed us, stripping away everything that once defined us. Even the tradition of henna, we abandoned it in mourning for our wounded homeland. For Sudanese women, mourning ...

The members of Jefferson Airplane did not play the clarinet or the alto horn or the violin that they held for the cover of their breakthrough album “Surrealistic Pillow.” Those classical instruments ...

While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so ...

Ms. Gubaidulina explored religion and mysticism in avant-garde compositions inspired by poetry, ancient texts and her ...

Many nations represented here have joined in the fight against global terror and the people of the United States are grateful. The United Nations was born in the hope that survived a world war, the ...

The Sicilian Agathocles, a man not only of obscure but lowly and abject origins, became king of Syracuse. The son of a potter ...

For years, Egyptologists have assumed pyramid tombs were just for the rich – but the burials at a site called Tombos don’t ...

A king's tomb dating back around 3,600 years has been discovered at Abydos, Egypt. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered ...