is entirely fictional. So, while Western forces — and Western audiences — get to fight the good fight with a flag on their shoulder, Middle Eastern forces and Middle Eastern players aren’t ...

The drama, which opens Friday in Washington, turns on internecine conflict in a Middle Eastern country ... "It's a total fiction.'' That's not precisely true. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's ...

because Tyrant—FX's new hour-long drama about the fictional ruling family of a fictional Middle Eastern nation—may be trying harder than any show I've ever seen to be Serious with a capital S.

Writer Matt Rees describes the siege on the Church of the Nativity, the spiritual center of Bethlehem, during the Palestinian uprising in 2002. Rees reads a passage from his novel set in Manger ...

It’s no secret that FX’s new drama “Tyrant” — about the son of a Middle Eastern dictator who leaves his comfortable California life to return to his troubled home country — has had ...

If science fiction is really about the present, then it’s no surprise that the longstanding tensions between the United States and Middle Eastern countries should make itself known in tales of ...