The Paris-based art dealer and collector Claude Lemand and his wife, France, donated some 1,300 works of art to the Institut du Monde Arabe. It’s one of the largest donations in the Paris museum’s ...
A placard with a press cartoon by cartoonist Plantu is placed amongst a frieze on the Republic statue at the Place de la Republique in Paris January 8, 2015 the day after a shooting at the Paris ...
Lebanese director-actor Nadine Labaki and her drama “Capernaum,” an award winner at Cannes, are set to kick off the first edition of the Festival Des Cinemas Arabes, an ambitious new event in Paris ...
To stroll through parts of the 19th and 20th districts of Paris on a Friday evening or a Saturday afternoon is to encounter a thriving Jewish community. Since the beginning of September, however, ...
The Arab World Institute in Paris represented collective Arab cultural ambition. Its gradual erosion should alarm us, says Hamad bin Abdul Aziz Al-Kuwari.
As Paris’ inaugural contemporary Arab photography festival draws to a close, visitors are reflecting on the importance of the event, which began three days before terrorist attacks rocked the capital ...
Count on Middle Eastern politics to turn what is billed as a French fair into a political slugfest. The Paris book fair, one of the major events on the European literary calendar, opened March 14, ...
The Arab film community is reacting to the tragic Paris attacks with shock, outrage and fears of a global backlash. “It’s another 9/11 that we are living again,” said Egyptian auteur Mohamed Diab who ...
The French Tricolour has been emblazoned on landmarks as varied as London’s Tower Bridge to Sydney’s iconic opera house and featured in hundreds of political cartoons drawn in response to the vicious ...