Arts and culture

Bağlama

Bağlama (saz), the most common stringed instrument of Türkiye, an Anatolian long-necked lute with mulberry soundboard, tied frets, La-Re-Mi tuning, and central roles in Alevi ritual and the âşık minstrel tradition.

Bagman (2024 film)

Bagman (2024 film) is a supernatural horror film directed by Colm McCarthy. It stars Sam Claflin as a father who must confront a child-snatching creature of folklore.

Bagna càuda

Bagna càuda (bagna caoda), the hot garlic-anchovy-olive oil dipping sauce of Piedmont, served warm in a terracotta fujot with cardoons; canonical 2005 recipe, salt-road history, Bagna Cauda Day festival.

Bagpipes

Bagpipes: family of reed instruments with an air bag feeding a chanter and drones, mouth- or bellows-blown. Over 130 types worldwide, from Great Highland and uilleann pipes to gaita and gaida; continuous sound, no standard pitch.

Bagpuss

Bagpuss: 1974 British stop-motion children's TV series by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms for BBC2; 13 episodes about a saggy pink cloth cat in Emily's lost-property shop; voted Britain's favourite children's programme in a 1999 BBC poll.

Baguette

Baguette: long, slender French bread loaf of flour, water, salt and leaven or yeast; regulated by the 1993 French bread decree as baguette de tradition française and inscribed by UNESCO in 2022 as intangible cultural heritage.

Bagutta Prize

The Bagutta Prize (Premio Bagutta) is an Italian literary prize awarded annually in Milan. Founded by writers in 1926, it is the oldest literary prize in Italy.

Bagyi Aung Soe

Bagyi Aung Soe (1923–1990) was a Burmese painter, illustrator, and teacher regarded as the pioneer of modern art in Myanmar, who studied at Tagore's Śāntiniketan in India in 1951.

Baha Men

Baha Men, Bahamian Junkanoo-pop band from New Providence formed in 1977 (originally High Voltage), best known for the Grammy-winning 2000 hit "Who Let the Dogs Out", a cover of Anslem Douglas's "Doggie" released on S-Curve, plus later albums and touring.

Bahaa Sultan

Bahaa Sultan (بهاء سلطان), born Bahaa Fathi Abdullah in 1972, is an Egyptian pop singer who rose to fame in the late 1990s and became one of Egypt's best-known 2000s stars.

Bahaa Taher

Bahaa Taher (بهاء طاهر), sometimes transliterated Bahaa Tahir, was an Egyptian novelist and translator who won the first Arabic Booker in 2008 for Sunset Oasis, dying in 2022 at 87.

Bahamas (musician)

Bahamas is the indie folk-rock project of Toronto-born, Finnish-descent singer-guitarist Afie Jurvanen, formerly a sideman for Feist; Juno-winning albums include Bahamas Is Afie, Earthtones, Sad Hunk, and Bootcut.

Bahamian cuisine

Bahamian cuisine is the cooking tradition of The Bahamas, centered on queen conch and seafood, with dishes like conch salad, cracked conch, peas and rice, and chicken souse.

Bahar (TV series)

Turkish medical comedy-drama (Show TV, MF Yapım), adaptation of Korean series Doctor Cha. Aired 13 February 2024 to 28 December 2025; 3 seasons, 64 episodes starring Demet Evgâr, Buğra Gülsoy, Mehmet Yılmaz Ak.

Bahar-i Danish

Bahar-i Danish (بهار دانش, "Spring of Knowledge") is a Persian collection of romantic tales compiled in 1651 by the Mughal writer ʻInayat Allah Kamboh for Shah Jahan's court.

Baharat (بهارات)

Baharat (بهارات), the Arabic word for spices, is a warm ground blend central to Middle Eastern cooking, sold in the Levant as sabaa baharat, seven spices, and used on kofta, kebabs, stews, and rice.

Baharistan

Baharistan (بهارستان) is an anecdotal Persian work in prose and verse by Jami, completed in 1487 and written as a textbook for his son in imitation of Sadi's Golestan.

Bahariye

Bahariye (bahâriyye) is the name in Ottoman and Persian classical poetry for qasidas whose opening teşbîb section depicts spring, usually to prepare praise of a dignitary.

Baharul Islam (actor)

Baharul Islam (বাহাৰুল ইছলাম), Assamese theatre and film actor, director, playwright, NSD graduate (1987–1990), founder of Seagull Theatre (1990), Heer Ranjha with TARA ART London, Best Actor for Alifa.

Bahati

Bahati, born Kevin Mbuvi Kioko in 1994, is a Kenyan singer who rose to fame as a gospel artist in Nairobi before crossing to secular Afro-pop.

Oct 10, 2026

Bahia Shehab

Bahia Shehab (born 1977) is an Egyptian artist, designer, and art historian known for A Thousand Times No and her street stencils in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Oct 3, 2026

Bahishkarana

Bahishkarana (బహిష్కరణ) is a 2024 Telugu ZEE5 original revenge drama, six episodes released July 19, 2024, directed by Mukesh Prajapathi, starring Anjali as courtesan Pushpa in 1990s Peddapalli, Guntur.

Bahman Jalali

Bahman Jalali (بهمن جلالی, 1944–2010) was an Iranian photographer who documented the 1979 Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War and later made photomontages from Qajar-era photographs.

Bahrain International Music Festival

The Bahrain International Music Festival is an annual October music festival in Bahrain, first held in 1992 and organized by the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities.

Bahrain Summer Festival

The Bahrain Summer Festival is an annual month-long festival of music, theater, and arts in Manama, organized by the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities, typically in July.

Bahram

Bahram (بهرام) is the stage name of Bahram Nouraei, an Iranian rapper and songwriter from Tehran who broke through in 2007 with a critical open letter to President Ahmadinejad.

Bahram Sadeghi

Bahram Sadeghi (بهرام صادقی, 1937 to 1985) was an Iranian physician, poet, and modernist fiction writer best known for his novella Malakut (1961), a landmark of twentieth-century Persian fiction.

Bahruz Kangarli

Bahruz Kangarli (Bəhruz Kəngərli, 1892–1922) was an Azerbaijani painter and graphic artist from Nakhchivan, the first Azerbaijani with specialized art education, who produced nearly 2,000 works, including the "Refugees" series.

Bahu Begum (2019 TV series)

Bahu Begum (बहू बेगम) is an Indian Colors TV romantic drama (15 July 2019 to 21 January 2020) by LSD Films, starring Arjit Taneja, Samiksha Jaiswal, Diana Khan, and Simone Singh, set in Nawabi Bhopal around a polygamy-driven love triangle; 134 episodes, cancelled after six months.