As Jafar Panahi's "It Was Just an Accident" plays the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, IndieWire looks at Iran's recent representation of hijab, from Panahi to Mohammad Rasoulof and Asghar Farhadi.

After two people added the name of author J.K. Rowling to the piece and another embroidered a line of stitches through both instances, things became complicated.

What happens when the women immortalised in old master paintings step out of their gilded frames and into the chaos of modern domestic life? That’s the question artist Sarah Lightman tackles, with wit ...

Caption: When Setayesh Khasheei, 13, and her family came to Winnipeg, fleeing their home in Kabul after the Taliban seized control, she was happy to be safe, but wanted to do more to help her ...

Here’s looking at you, kid. I mean, Your Majesty. In the real Casablanca — not the acclaimed 1942 Oscar-winning movie — I soaked like a queen in a rose petal-strewn warm bath at the Art Deco glamorous ...

In our guides to the classics, experts explain key literary works. Ibn Battuta, was born in Tangier, Morocco, on February 24, 1304. From a statement in his celebrated travel book the Rihla (“legal ...