On a list of operas in dire need of a radically stripped-down reimagining, “The Magic Flute” doesn’t rank especially high.

Chivalry is not dead. You might be inclined to think so after some time with Miguel de Cervantes’ “Don Quixote.”

It seems so familiar to us now – puppet characters on television that are so real, so expressive, so alive that we forget there’s a human being doing the actual work behind the scenes.

Three years ago, the artist Rasha Kahil was staying at a friend’s place in Berlin.

Many Lebanese have a soft spot for things French.

To the skeptical eye, Souad Massi could be a throwback. For those moving in the proscribed circles of this region’s middle class, or frequenting those Western clubs and festivals catering to international music...

Hania Mroué’s brows furrow as she stares into her Blackberry. An SMS message on the mobile phone in her other hand has just delivered bad news about the whereabouts of a 35mm film reel.

The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and Artists Against Apartheid, International Alliance, have issued a joint statement calling on Palestinian filmmaker Sameh Zoabi to withdraw his film from the Jerusalem Film Festival, which closes Saturday.

Want to marry rich? Then the unlikely named Beijing Moral Education Center for Women is for you.

The setting does not sound promising: the underbelly of a major highway bridge over a polluted canal which meanders through some of the most deprived areas of east London.