Born in Saudi Arabia, Rutaba Yaqub went to Pakistan to study engineering. While she was there she discovered a love for singing — and she's found that conservative Pakistan is the place that givers her the freedom to really develop her music.

Katie Nelson is a freelance photographer and reporter in Nairobi. On a recent trip to a bookstore, she picked up some old National Geographic magazines, including one that is quite famous. The timing, though, was quite ironic.

Shehzil Malik is a talented illustrator determined to spark a conversation about the way men treat women.

Edvard Munch was a glum, depressed and obsessed artist. Right? Wrong, says the man who created a graphic biography that reveals another side of the painter.

It's not that Deepak Singh craves hearing Hindi or eating hot samosas all the time. It's just that something about being in a small town makes him crave them more.

There is a lot of bling buried in the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. But the beach "gold miners" say there are fewer treasures than there used to be.

Dueling narrators in Newman's lively satire play with Putin's name and his hyper-manly image.

In 2010 cartoonist Sarah Glidden tagged along with journalist friends as they traveled to Turkey, Iraq and Syria to report on those displaced by the war in Iraq. "Rolling Blackouts" features her hand-drawn observations.

In Indonesia, where record-pressing plants went out of business decades ago, vinyl is enjoying a renaissance. Here’s how a new generation of collectors is finding their treasures.

Seeing isn’t perceiving. When we pause at a museum to study a painting, our brains get to work.