Stories

At the Venice Biennale, which runs through November 22, 2026, the Moroccan, French and Saudi national pavilions show how craft and shared memory can resist cultural erasure.

The legacy of an Ottoman-era project to connect Damascus, Syria, to the holy site of Madinah in modern Saudi Arabia and beyond is breathing new life into today’s vision for rail in the region.

With earthquakes, weather, tourism and time threatening some of the world's most celebrated Islamic architecture, restorers ensure that the knowledge behind the monuments survives alongside the buildings themselves.

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence from Great Britain on July 4, the foods that filled the tables of the Founding Fathers—the late-18th-century statesmen who were most influential in the new country’s creation—are a reminder that elite households relied on ingredients carried through trade routes connecting the Mediterranean, Africa, Asia and regions now known as the Middle East.

Chef and restaurateur Shane Delia re-creates a rice-and-milk pudding he discovered along Türkiye’s Black Sea coast, one of many sutlaç found on menus in the region; this recipe gets additional texture from a pistachio crumble.

In Islamesque Diane Darke argues that Europe’s most celebrated architecture, including the Palermo Cathedral in Sicily, owes its sophistication to cultural exchanges with forgotten Muslim craftsmen.

Moroccan Spanish journalist Leyla Hamed has built a career telling the human stories inside football, the world's largest sport.

The collaborative nature of World Cup songs reflects the global scale of the tournament itself.

AramcoWorld’s question, “What does football mean to you?,” generated hundreds of replies from readers about playing and/or watching the sport.

Surely, Yavuz Ozborme’s fine-tuning of the avocado dip in a quest for continuous improvement is a metaphor for adjusting to life since he and his brother came to London and opened Buffalo Grill in Greenwich.

From New York to Toronto to Houston, immigrant communities re-create the rituals of the World Cup through food and shared traditions.