Arts & Culture
May 21st, 2015Taiwan’s digital generation losing touch with alphabet
When China decided to move to a simplified version of written Mandarin, Taiwan failed to follow suit.Its people continue to...
- May 21st, 2015
Anatomy of a revolution through art
As the war in Syria enters its fifth year, millions of homes have been destroyed and almost half of...
- May 21st, 2015
Blasphemy at the opera in Siberia
NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia — Boris Mezdrich sits before a large desk in the spacious director’s office of the Opera and...
- May 21st, 2015
Following Beethoven’s Ninth
Following Beethoven's Ninth is the story of people whose lives have been transformed, repaired and healed by the message...
- May 21st, 2015
A Yazidi artist’s brush with death
Duhok, Iraq - In happier times, Ammar Salim Khidhir dedicated much of his art to children, making larger-than-life statues...
- May 21st, 2015
Khalil Gibran for a new generation
The news that Salma Hayek had travelled to Lebanon to launch her co-produced animated feature film Khalil Gibran's The...
- May 21st, 2015
Crafting beautiful music in Palestine
Ramallah, occupied West Bank - Shehada Shalalda, 24, is the youngest among the very few luthiers in Palestine. He...
- May 21st, 2015
Cuba’s Unfinished Spaces
In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art...
- May 21st, 2015
A new season of Viewfinder Latin America
In the upcoming season of Al Jazeera's Viewfinder series we travel across Latin America to bring you stories of...
- May 19th, 2015
Cover Story
"In the 90's, covering meant pardessus and a black burqa. Those pardessus were very ugly. They were seen as...
