With Mastery Studio releasing its new Quantum Sound album aimed at “redefining sonic meditation”, we explore the potential of ...

Every Friday, 8pm (Free entry): “Alaragouz wa Khayal Al-Zel” (The Karakouz and The Shadow Puppet), a free public performance by clowns in Al-Muaaz Street, presented by Wamda and directed by its ...

Practitioners are afraid of practicing their religion — which is, of course, a complete anathema to what we believe as a ...

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When our ancient ancestors made the journey out of Africa and took their first steps in Eurasia, they came face-to-face with Neanderthals for the first time – and boy, did they hit it off. In fact, ...

State Sen. Jesse Salomon, Washington's mushrooms legislator, wants to broaden the state's psychedelic horizons with Ibogaine therapy, a drug that supposedly acts as an almost miracle balm for psychic ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...

Previously unpublished Toni Morrison; fiction by Tayari Jones, Lauren Groff and Mario Vargas Llosa; Gavin Newsom’s memoir; and more.

Just because something is legal doesn’t automatically make it morally good. Nor does banning something instantly mean that it ...

In this unusually eventful — mostly not in good ways — year for higher education, it’s salutary to be reminded how much good ...

When most people think science fiction, they first think of outer space. It’s why names like Kubrick, Lucas, Cameron, and Scott will live on long after the men who made them famous are gone. For the ...

What happens when classical music-style levels of ambition, invention and sheer length are grafted onto pop music? The answer ...