Dancing in Damascus: Syrians cling to culture under Islamists' rule
On a wintry night in Damascus, hundreds of people packed into a courtyard in the Old City, dancing and singing during a ...
Middle East Eye3d
'People can unite': Syrian-German electro duo Shkoon on bridging Arab and western musical cultures
After fleeing the war in Syria, Ameen Khayer met Thorben Beeken and the duo have since been playing to sold-out venues in ...
Australian women who lived under Islamic State speak from Syria for first time since the fall of the Assad regime
Australian women who lived in the Islamic State terror group's so-called caliphate speak from detention camps in Syria for ...
Migrant violence pushes voters into AfD’s arms
Far-Right German party is capitalising on discontent over terror incidents as the country prepares for election ...
KMUW4d
A voice of the Syrian revolution was killed. But the man who wrote his anthems lives
The Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset Al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems. In death, he has become its saint. But he didn't do it alone.
Asbarez4d
Golden Thread Productions and Hakawati to Present World Premiere of ‘AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf)’
Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East, and Hakawati, a nonprofit dedicated ...
BroadwayWorld4d
AZAD (THE RABBIT AND THE WOLF) World Premiere to be Presented at Potrero Stage
Golden Thread Productions will present the world premiere of AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf). Featuring folk music, oral ...
The Peninsula3d
Second edition of TEDx Doha Institute celebrates beauty of ‘the Arabic Language’
The Doha Institute of Graduate Studies (DI) organized the second edition of TEDx under the theme The Dhadh Language the Arabic ...
The Quietus6d
Unfortunately, it’s the Perfect Moment: Prostitute Interviewed
You can hear it on the record. With its bleating and reedy samples, insistent and nervy instrumentation, all-pervasive ...