With the Durbar Room, the eminent Punjabi Sikh architect and designer Bhai Ram Singh realized Queen Victoria’s wish for an “Indian dining room.”
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a musician with a message and a phenomenon in an era of globalized music.
The Sultan Mosque serves as a marker reflecting the end of Islamic rule of Singapore and the island’s emergence as a British colony and entrepôt.
Hadraawi was a prolific poet and songwriter and fearless voice of the voiceless.
Issey Miyake reinvented Japanese clothing traditions while embracing new textile technologies and silhouettes.
Highlife crooner and Afrobeat singer Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode died, according to his wife Latoya Aduke, in his sleep…
Modern Islamic art in the Muslim diaspora recontextualizes culturally-specific ornamentation.
Centuries ago, the Kashmiri shawl was a global status symbol, sought after and imitated. It remains a coveted object of beauty and luxury.
Proud Bukharans want to cherish their history, but not at the expense of foregoing the future.
Changing tastes threaten askiya, a centuries-old Uzbek tradition that prizes wit, improvisation, and mastery of language.
At Olana, East meets West in an American’s mind.
This Afghan American designer is reconfiguring typically masculine symbols for the feminine form.