Flights from Baghdad to Beirut are nearly at capacity as airlines increase services ahead of Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's funeral, officials said. The pro-Iran group has called for a huge ...

Born in 1898 in a small Nile Delta village, Umm Kulthum rose from humble beginnings to become the most celebrated voice in the Arab world. Her father, an imam, recognised her talent early on, but ...

Travelling through the Middle East over the course of five months to film a new series and write a book I often found myself in these otherworldly encounters. In Iraq, I sipped tea with Abu Tahsin – a ...

Sepia-toned photographs of the icon adorn the walls of Abu Ahmed's cafe, alongside posters from her concerts ... the same music poured out of Baghdad's own Umm Kulthum cafe -- open since 1970 ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

And the posters for Fanta and Pepsi at the corner ... On New Year's Eve, I watched the family board a C-130 at the Baghdad airport. No one there that day could have ever imagined an infant aboard ...

“Black History Month” posters were displayed across the joint ... and reported from Baghdad and Afghanistan seven times since. A University of Houston graduate, he covered the Branch Davidian ...

His best-known play, 2009’s “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” hasn’t had a ... “We just redid our poster artwork to make it clearer.” At the same time, he said, “We want the ...