As the world undergoes rapid political and economic transformations with escalating conflicts shaking the Middle East, the ...

By Malak Shalaby Few voices have shaped a region the way hers has. Umm Kulthum wasn’t just a singer — she was a movement. A force of nature who redefined what it meant to be powerful, elegant, and ...

Nancy A. Youssef is a national security correspondent whose reporting has focused largely on the U.S. military and the Arab world.

Ginger Adams Otis is an editor and reporter with The Wall Street Journal in New York.