[caption id="attachment_55233855" align="alignnone" width="620"] President Obama (credit: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)[/caption]Presidential…

[caption id="attachment_55233836" align="alignnone" width="620"] Traffic in Istanbul[/caption] [inset_left]plaka [pi-LYA-ka] n. number plate…

[caption id="attachment_55233828" align="alignnone" width="620"] Clint Eastwood speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention […

[caption id="attachment_55233813" align="alignnone" width="620"] Abdellah Taïa, one of the 39 featured writers[/caption]Beirut 39: New Writing from…

[caption id="attachment_55233808" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A demonstrator shouts slogans during a protest calling for the respect of women's…

[caption id="attachment_55233790" align="alignnone" width="620"] Workers at Cleopatra Ceramics factory began striking during the revolution.[/caption…

[caption id="attachment_55233784" align="aligncenter" width="620"] The Syrian flag flies in Damascus during a pro-government rally in February 2012[…

[caption id="attachment_55233769" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Relatives of Sevil Sevimli, a 19-year-old French student of Turkish descent who…

[caption id="attachment_55233749" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Ahmed Mourad was Egypt’s official presidential photographer for ten years[/caption…

[caption id="attachment_55233703" align="alignnone" width="620"] David Roberts: El Deir, Petra[/caption] The Victorians were fascinated by scenes of…