How artists and writers draw inspiration from Ramadan, showcasing traditional and contemporary works that reflect the spirit ...

Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used. The town is also home to Syria's two oldest active monasteries. But ...

Already, the war had left bullet holes in religious symbols and artifacts. Paintings and mosaics of ... we didn’t know Arabic.” Now the language is mainly taught at home and is spoken more ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Maaloula is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is ...

The background color is inspired by International Klein Blue, a hue that the artist Yves Klein first mixed in the 1950s, using it to make an array of monochromatic paintings until his death in 1962.

Based in Detroit, the artist reflects the juxtapositions of her surrounding landscape in paintings on cotton paper, merging human-made and organic materials in works redolent of Persian tapestries. In ...

Most art historians didn’t believe her claims at first. Moyle knew that Holbein would often include hidden symbols and signs in his paintings, which weren’t obvious to most observers. First, she ...

According to Mistral, the 24-billion-parameter model has been trained on "meticulously curated datasets" from across the Middle East and South Asia to meet a growing customer base in Arabic ...