CAIRO (AP) — "From Cairo…it's Saturday Night!" An Arabic version of Saturday Night Live is airing across the Arab world for the first time this weekend, offering a Middle Eastern twist on the hit U.S.

Until recently, Arab music had been used by American and European studios and popular media in a way that “was very orientalist,” playing on racist tropes, according to writer and music journalist ...

No Arabian Nights theme was used to sell tickets here. Just over a thousand people-many of them part of Miami’s Arab and Middle Eastern diaspora, but just as many from outside it-gathered beneath ...