We, a group of leaders from human rights organizations, writers, and public media figures, appeal to you to grant clemency to Egyptian-British writer Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who has spent nearly a ...

Last year, the Academy Awards' race for best original song could be fairly boiled down to a two-horse race between two deeply different — and equally excellent — songs from the blockbuster ...

Nahla El-Qodsy, the wife of Egypt's late iconic musician Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, passed away on Sunday in Jordan's capital Amman, Ahram Arabic reported. The couple had five children together.

She was formerly at POPSUGAR, Bustle, Tiger Beat and Her Campus. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Brenda Song is loving the stage of life she’s in but even she’s dealt with imposter syndrome from ...

Former Pakistan pacer Wahab Riaz recently opened up on why India-Pakistan matches have become less aggressive, pointing it to strict ICC regulations. Speaking ahead of the India-Pakistan clash in ...

Jessica Simpson has officially returned to music with her first new original song in years. "Use My Heart Against Me" is the first release from "Nashville Canyon," a two-part project. The first ...

The latest attacks on Abdel-Fattah are aimed at rescinding her research grant and sacking her from Macquarie University and we demand that no such action be taken. The harassment is being led by ...

the composer Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Shadia, Lebanese singer Wadie El-Safi, and of course not forgetting the unique Fairuz, built the basis of the modern Arab music and cinema. Songs, movies, and plays ...

A new book on the ultimate diva of 20th-century Arab singing Um Kolthoum describes a woman who had a determination that ...

In a similarly creative household, Said recalls communal jam sessions: “My mother, siblings, and grandparents too, we’d sit together every Thursday and learn tarab songs together, Umm Kulthum, Abdel ...

Omar Abdel-Baqui is a Dubai-based Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. His reporting focuses on the social transformations rippling across the region, among other issues.