NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop singer Youssou N'Dour's 2004 album of Islamic music earned him a boycott by some Muslim fans, but in a new documentary about the album, "Egypt," he says the music has ...

While the Qur’an is read in a lyrical way, interpretations of how good or bad music is tend to depend on pitch, content, musical instruments, gender, situation and occasion. Some Muslim scholars say ...

As part of our series profiling new professors, Suleyman Dost of the Department of Near East and Judaic Studies talked with BrandeisNOW about his field and research. Dost joined the Brandeis faculty ...

Cairo: A few years ago, Egyptian Islamist members of parliament demanded 'raunchy' music videos be banned on television. They accused the shows of pervading immorality and corrupting young people.

Alexander the Great, the fourth-century B.C. Macedonian ruler who conquered most of the ancient world before dying at age 32, would now be considered a candidate for statue removal. In his triumph ...