Lahab is an Arabic word distinct from the related nar, meaning fire. It describes the visible flame rising from fire and its motion, from flicker to engulfment. These meanings eme…
Midway through Do You Love Me, Lebanon no longer feels like a place so much as a collection of memories. Hit pop songs drift in and out alongside grainy home videos, forgotten fil…
The fathers of Cern, the European laboratory for particle physics near Geneva, which was conceived in the late 1940s, had two aims. The first was to enable the construction of lar…
There’s a particular kind of disappointment that only a good filmmaker can deliver, and Disclosure Day is steeped in it. This isn’t a bad movie, exactly. It’s something more frust…
No one claimed responsibility Friday for airstrikes that hit Iran after the U.S. said it finished its attacks, leaving questions about who else may be targeting the Islamic Republ…
Qatar and Pakistan arrange new round of negotations as Turkey's Foreign Minister says truce can still hold
At the time of her death in 2019, the late Mary Oliver was one of the most successful American poets to ever publish. She wrote dozens of collections, and several highly quotable …
Dubai's superyacht-shaped Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab has been making waves ever since it first swung open its doors to the public last year. The luxurious five-star hotel – standing p…
Shadi's take on the Lebanon-Israel talks scheduled for Rome Shadi's take on renewed Iranian and US strikes Shadi's take on divisions over Nato funding Shadi's take on Donald Trump…
J. D. Salinger’s classic novel of teen alienation made me feel more connected to the world. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in book…
Rachel Aviv’s You Won’t Get Free of It, Daniel Mason’s Country People, and David Thompson’s A Sudden Flicker of Light all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brough…
Guns appeared to fall silent on Friday after days of deadly attacks traded by the US and Iran, as mediators push for a return to dialogue and diplomacy. The US carried out strikes…