Arts

It’s April The season of cherry blossoms Suddenly appearing everywhere All around A riot of subtle pink, burgundy and purple And apple blossom white And their sweet smell Mingles with every kind of magnolia Butterfly, yellow...

A few years ago, when American University Professor Dr. Akbar Ahmed and Smithsonian Director Manjula Kumar picked me for the role of a Sufi Sheikh in the famous play Noor, I savored the experience as a...

Leave us here in our women’s chambers leave us here so secure chewing the lotus with lotus maiden amidst the fumes of a suspended past that waft away an uncertain future space so marble-cooled illusions so...

Rainbow Dream: A rainbow forms over the Barmsee lake in Mittenwald, Germany Photo Credit: Maximilian Ziegler / WMO / UN We may forget what Nature has given us but it’s always there for us to see,...

It is not well known in American mainstream culture, but some of the most famous African-American musicians are Muslim. They include numerous hip-hop stars such as Ice Cube, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, and T-Pain. The close...

Feelings of the time slipping by and expectations of good times ahead merged creatively as the Society of Urdu Literature hosted its last session of 2017 in the afternoon of December 31, just hours before the...

Photo: Institute of Immigration Research In February this year, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts removed all pieces of art contributed or donated by immigrants. This month, George Mason University’s Institute for Immigration Research,...

Asghar Farhadi in a The Salesman’s press conference, Taraneh Alidoosti in his left and Shahab Hosseini in right Photo Credit:  Hamed Malekpour via Wikimedia Commons Oscars, the grandest of awards in the film industry, became amphitheater of diversity...