Yaroslav Simkiv has played the trumpet for over 50 years. But these days, Simkiv has taken on a serious role — bidding a musical farewell to Ukraine’s fallen soldiers. From Lviv, Emily Johnson reports ...

Cleopatra VII Philopator was an astute ruler who used her charms to win over the most powerful men in the ancient world as allies.

On Christmas day 1863, as his son recovered from his wounds, Henry penned the poem “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” with ...

Every minute since he touched down in Morocco for the Africa Cup of Nations, Salah has felt something he has missed for the ...

Recent Egyptian blockbuster, El Set (The Woman, 2025), opens in 1967 at Om Kalthoum’s iconic concert at the Olympia in Paris. The camera drifts across a packed theatre, with faces tilted upward, eye ...

Abu Amsha’s initiative, which he dubbed "Gaza’s Birds Sing", grew organically. "I never thought it would become an organised ...

A northern English town loses its best choral singers to fighting in World War I but finds new hope in a time of loss through music in Nicholas Hytner's new film "The Choral," featuring Ralph Fiennes.

If you somehow missed the now-routine question of why Israel is in Eurovision but Russia isn’t, the short and utterly ...

“ Train Dreams ” composer Bryce Dessner is set to present a special live-to-picture performance of the film on Jan. 8 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Dessner’s score will be performed by the ...

Youthful, graceful, and very competent, with a cast of top singers, Maestro Vincenzo Milletari took the audience to ancient Egypt and its unique rituals and customs.

From historical epics to raw eyewitness accounts, Palestinian cinema has moved from the sidelines to center stage in 2025.

Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu, in one of her poems, The Gift of India (1917). More than a century later, Shruthi ...