Look for Arab cinema and lots of docs at festivals this week. First up is the always impressively programmed Arab Film Festival, presented by the San Francisco-based Arab Film and Media Institute, ...

Popular dance choreographer Jani is a veteran of more than 150 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi. His most recent super hits in Tamil are “Arabic Kuthu” in Thalapathy Vijay’s ‘Beast’ ...

Sudan's Ruling Council is open to a US-Saudi peace push to halt the devastating two-year war; meanwhile, the EU sanctioned a top RSF commander for Darfur atrocities.

Despite her fame, you wouldn’t know about Gene Stratton-Porter unless you visit the vanishing Midwestern landscape she helped save Kathryn Aalto; Photographs by Ackerman + Gruber My dear Girl: In the ...