[caption id="attachment_55239265" align="alignnone" width="620"] A picture taken late on February 9, 2013 shows a night view of Baghdad's Fardoos…

[caption id="attachment_55239227" align="alignnone" width="620"] The town of Hama in Syria. Hama was the scene of the 1982 massacre of up to 30,000…

[caption id="attachment_55239195" align="alignnone" width="620"] Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrisov (R) shows the way to Iran’s top nuclear…

[caption id="attachment_55239108" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A man holds a portrait of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak reading “No You Can’t” …

[caption id="attachment_55239097" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi worker adjusts a control valve at the Daura oil refinery on November 5,…

[caption id="attachment_55239080" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh…

The French have long recognized the literary merit of Abdellatif Laâbi’s work. His writing, often compared to that of Pablo Neruda and Nazim Hikmet…

[caption id="attachment_55238838" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A military officer shows Yemeni Interior Minister Abdul-Qater Qahtan (L) and other…

[caption id="attachment_55238961" align="alignnone" width="620"] The 'Facebook' logo is reflected in a young woman’s sunglasses. Source: Manjunath…

[caption id="attachment_55238921" align="alignnone" width="620"] The daily newspaper Al-Ahram is sold in Tahrir Square on March 4 2011 in downtown…