[caption id="attachment_55227709" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A pro-government rally in Damascus"][/caption] Less than a year ago, when…

[caption id="attachment_55227200" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Fire and Water, 2010, Mounira Al-Solh"][/caption] In the past decade,…

[caption id="attachment_55227008" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A young Tunisian couple stroll past an election campaign poster"][/caption…

[escenic_image id="55211072"] Distinctive within Iranian artist Golnaz Fathi’s second solo UK exhibition, entitled Liminal Subliminal, are three red,…

[escenic_image id="55198220"]With economic success at home, Turkey’s government has been flexing its muscles on the world stage and Recep Tayyip…

[escenic_image id="55160856"]KABUL: The Pashtun warlord’s son arranged our audience in the plush living room of a villa thronged by petitioners and…

[escenic_image id="55113174"]After the failed Detroit bomb plot last Christmas, Yemen is no longer headline news in Western capitals, but the poorest…

[escenic_image id="5567722"]The Middle East has emerged from the recent global economic crisis in better shape than most other regions. It…

[escenic_image id="5522874"]Is China about to revalue its national currency, the renminbi? As its economy heads into a second year of rapid recovery…

[escenic_image id="5512639"]At a seminar last month in one of the NASA buildings in Washington DC, a US defence and intelligence services analyst…