US President Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer Palestinians from Gaza and then rebuild the Strip shocked the war. Rejected by the Arab world and…

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Among the most distinctive works of Russian artist Zinaida Serebriakova are the paintings she created in Morocco. She made two trips to the North…

When Sotheby’s, the great auction house, hosted its first major retrospective of Saudi art last month in London, the Saudi ambassador was present and…

Erbil: The three blindfolded Kurdish men kneeling in yellow jumpsuits with their backs to the audience recalled the Baghdad trials of alleged Islamic…

After US President Joe Biden bowed to the inevitable and withdrew from the November 2024 US presidential campaign, there is mounting speculation that…

Public opinion polls on upcoming elections in Britain and France reveal a lot about the right of the far right in Europe. In Britain, the…

The mother of all war novels, to adapt a phrase from Saddam Hussein, must be War and Peace. But, just as the BBC’s Desert Island Discs gives every…