Cappella Romana has a long-standing interest in the Byzantine Empire -- its cultural context and long arm of influence after the Turkish conquest in 1453. Indeed, one purpose of the 11-year-old vocal ...

Jealousy and envy can drain your energy, create conflicts, and even affect your mental peace. Ancient wisdom offers a ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A few steps from Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a small opening leads to an underground cistern where clerics have found the perfect place to practise chants ahead of ...

‘Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah,” says Ellen Broselow, “Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah.” It is not the sort of thing you expect to hear from the mouth of a learned professor. But then Broselow, chairwoman ...

Against the backdrop of southern Oman's lush mountains, men in traditional attire chant ancient poems in an ancient language, fighting to keep alive a spoken tradition used by just 2% of the ...

Almost all Omanis speak Arabic, but in the mountainous coastal region of Dhofar bordering Yemen, people speak Jibbali, also known as Shehri. (AFP pic) Against the backdrop of southern Oman’s lush ...