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A leading Muslim group says there have been at least as many anti-Muslim acts in France since the terror attacks this month as for all of last year. The French…
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“Close to here: Young Photographers from North Africa and the Middle East” is an exhibition comprised of 18 young photographers from 10 Arab countries, showing at the B’chira Art Center…
This article originally appeared on ArchDaily. by Karissa Rosenfield Architects’ Journal has released the shortlist of their annual Women in Architecture awards, naming 17 established and emerging practitioners who have…
What better way to really dig into the post-holidays spirit than a trip to the ballet? This time of year, there are less sugar plum fairies and mouse kings hanging…
Supporters of the imprisoned pastor Saeed Abedini have a renewed sense of hope after a private meeting with President Barack Obama reportedly told Abedini’s wife, Nagmeh Abedini, that securing the…
Reviewers are tasked with the daunting challenge of critically assessing a work’s artistic merit, and determining whether a book is worth readers’ valuable time. They are often also expected to…
John Keats only lived until the age of 25, but in that time he penned such immortal poems as “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (“She cannot fade, though thou hast…
Vince Camuto, 19362015 pic.twitter.com/kTjmvKin2s In 1978, Camuto co-founded Nine West with Jerome Fisher. In 1999, they sold what had become one of the country’s largest shoe companies to the Jones…
TV fans know Rainn Wilson as the eccentric paper salesman Dwight Schrute from “The Office,” but before he found that level of fame, he faced devastating failure — and it…
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Queen Rania al-Abdullah of Jordan stood with world leaders protesting terrorism in the Paris unity march on Jan. 11 — but she does not stand with Charlie Hebdo in their…
The world has seen a surge of religious violence in recent years — from the recent attacks on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to the Wisconsin Sikh…
www.cnn.com: (CNN)Media outlets have been abuzz this week with the news that the oldest fragment of a New Testament gospel — and thus the earliest witness of Jesus’ life and…
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The production, which has had huge success at the box office on Broadway, will run at the Theater Royal Haymarket in the city’s West End from May 19 to Aug….
Despite what you were taught as a kid, peanut butter is not a monogamous food. Nope, jelly’s not its only culinary partner. It’s hard to hear at first, but once…