Poetry is a living, breathing medium in the Arab world, where it's the basis of two hit TV competition shows, a la American Idol — but with poets. NPR explores why Arabic poetry remains such an active ...

These were not the images of Arabs seen on the nightly news. There was a picture of a trim Saudi Arabian woman, clad in a white leotard doing aerobic exercises, checking her form in a mirror. Then one ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient world as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic manuscript kept ...