[caption id="attachment_55246489" align="alignnone" width="594"] Egypt's 50-member constitution-drafting committee at their first meeting in Cairo on…

[caption id="attachment_55246496" align="alignnone" width="620"] Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan (L) and the head of the General National Congress,…

[caption id="attachment_55246392" align="alignnone" width="620"] Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the 99th caliph and the last sultan to exert effective…

[caption id="attachment_55246456" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iranian border guard looks through a pair of binoculars to monitor a border area…

[caption id="attachment_55246443" align="alignnone" width="620"] The sun rises behind the Blue Mosque in the Sultanahmet area of Istanbul on February…

[caption id="attachment_55246397" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, meets with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki…

[caption id="attachment_55246377" align="alignnone" width="594"] Separate car bombs against displaced members of the Shabak community and industrial…

[caption id="attachment_55246321" align="alignnone" width="620"] Actors in the popular Turkish soap opera "Nour," Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ (L) and Songül Öden…

[caption id="attachment_55246303" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian volunteer women scrub paint and graffiti off a wall in Tahrir Square on…

[caption id="attachment_55246307" align="alignnone" width="620"]Samia Halaby"Sunrise Green" (Courtesy of the Ayyam Gallery)[/caption]In her words,…