A unique 100-movie film festival kicked off in Afghanistan on Saturday in connection with the country’s 100th Independence Day celebrations.  Sahraa Karimi, the first-ever female head of Afghan Film, a state-owned institution, is spearheading the festival, seen as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- "My father was shot dead by unknown gunmen. In the hospital, before I closed my father’s eyes, I saw the image of the murderer and his rifle and I heard the voice of my father whispering in my ears ‘do not reconcile.’" This excerpt is from the short story...

"Youthquake" was crowned Friday as Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year 2017, following a five-fold increase in usage. The word is defined as "a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people". It first rose during...

A play about Syria’s war, told through one family’s tragedy, made its Lebanon debut on Friday, the closest it will ever get to being staged on home soil, its Syrian director said. “It would be impossible to perform it in Syria. There are red lines, and the censorship that was...