The grabbing of presents, the tearing of paper, the ripping of boxes. Followed by the piling up of garbage, and the ...

When I visited Istanbul for the first time, I learned a joke from Gocke, my local guide, who goes to work by undersea train every day. "But you can't see anything," she laughed. For her, it takes only ...

The American poet Emily Dickinson turned 195 this December. The celebrated author is one of the rare icons from the world of ...

Tolkien used his scholarly familiarity with ancient storytelling modes to create a a world so vast it spills off of the page.

And I deeply admire the artistic legacy of Ziad Rahbani—the work that Fairuz sang, and through which she stepped beyond the carefully crafted persona the Rahbani brothers had built Since Ziad ...

Ceramics are one of the oldest artforms, with evidence of pottery dating back to prehistoric times and archaeological ...

A paper on arXiv by researchers at the Icaro Lab in Italy has set off a firestorm of headlines. It begins with a reference to ...

According to UNESCO 2016: Studies indicate that instruction in a student’s native language improves understanding, analytical ...

The musician and composer mixed the tangible and intangible in his pursuit of a project that explored famililal themes across ...

Production features a libretto by Lebanon’s Antoine Maalouf and musical support from China’s Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra ...