Damascus is hosting its first international book fair since Bashar Assad fell, and publishers say censorship has almost ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hani Al Sawah recently walked the streets of Damascus, Syria's capital, with wide-eyed excitement. It had been 13 years since the rap artist last was in Syria. Later that night, ...

Syrian rapper Al Darwish returns home to perform for first time in 13 years - ‘Never in my wildest dreams did I think I could ever return to Syria,’ says the musician who fled his country in 2012 ...

On “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me,” a reclusive woman confronts the inhospitality of the world beyond her door.

Homeland Security ‌Secretary Kristi Noem, an appointee of the Republican president, announced in September that Syria's TPS designation would end, noting that the situation there "no longer meets the ...

Under Mr Assad, publishing houses were regularly forced to pull books from their shelves; intelligence agencies would rifle through new collections. Unflattering biographies of Bashar were not ...

Iran's proxy network has been weakened by a series of shocks, but remains a dangerous and unpredictable force capable of ...

THE musician and the visual artist . . . two lives shaped by shared experience and creative endeavour. Damon Albarn was born ...

A Syrian drama which depicts the prisons of the former Assad regime has been received with outrage by families of prisoners, ...

Remembering and documentation are radical acts in Lebanon, a country with a tumultuous history and no national archive. Daher’s effervescent cultural collage is a direct challenge to collective amnesi ...

Syria's well-known TV dramas are returning to Ramadan screens as the industry tries to rebuild after years of war and the ...