Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A passion for fashion and dolls inspired this woman to create a project that could help preserve and promote Arab heritage.

CAIRO, Egypt -- Move over Barbie and all you other blonde, blue-eyed plastic bombshells -- the Arab world is about to introduce Laila, the kind of doll a girl can really relate to. Laila's looks are ...

Looking like painted artillery shells from a distance, forty sleek, black and white forms displayed on a stark white plinth in the middle of The Armory Show Modern take on a more innocent appearance ...

Sometimes there is a film that encapsulates all the tensions and contradictions of a people and a state. This is the merit of Diana El Jeiroudi’s documentary film about the situation of women, the ...

A dark-eyed, veiled doll called Fulla has invaded Arab toy chests, bringing a touch of the Muslim Middle East to a domain once dominated by the blonde blue-eyed Barbie. Fulla, like many Muslim women ...

This is Fulla, the Hijab-clad Arab Muslim adaptation of the decadent West's Barbie doll. فـُلـّّة هي دمية عربية نشأت منذ سنوات تحاكي الدمية باربي الشهيرة وطبيعي عندما تظهر دمية ...

A passion for fashion and dolls inspired this woman to create a project that could help preserve and promote Arab heritage. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) FOUNDER OF 'MADEENA' THE DOLL, DIMA ABU QAOUD, SAYING: ...