NEW YORK - Moments after he made history as the first Muslim and Asian American mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani dished out a fiery acceptance speech and topped it off with a hit Bollywood ...

Calls for a boycott of the United Arab Emirates have grown in recent days, following the Rapid Support Forces' brutal takeover of the Sudanese city of El Fasher earlier this week. The UAE-backed ...

The week’s most popular Arabic songs across the globe based on streaming activity from more than 200 territories around the world- including the MENA region as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is ...

The 46th Cairo Intl. Film Festival wrapped Friday in an emotionally charged ceremony that balanced the region’s realities with a showcase of bold new cinema. Held at the Cairo Opera House before a ...

A selection of beautifully written and lovingly designed books released or reissued this year that we would gladly find ...

“Habibi!” — my love — Attaf Rsheidat cried out, overcome with emotion seeing her daughter, Baraah Mohammad, son-in-law and two young grandchildren on Canadian soil for the very first time. The ...

The just-wrapped Denver season of “Love Is Blind” may be the first time the show explored the Mountain West, but the Netflix reality dating show franchise is already a well-seasoned globe-trotter. In ...

Festival's 14-strong international competition includes nine international films and five from the MENA region ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Kylian Mbappe has hit back at French rapper Orelsan after being mocked in a new track over the Real Madrid star’s ownership of Caen. The French club now sit in the third tier of French football after ...