[caption id="attachment_55234774" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and US President Barack Obama. (credit:…

[caption id="attachment_55234760" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Front page of the embattled Turkish newspaper, Taraf, 22 October 2012.[/caption] …

[caption id="attachment_55234725" align="alignnone" width="620"] France's President Francois Hollande delivers a speech at the Senegalese National…

[caption id="attachment_55234696" align="alignnone" width="620"] Fidel Castro in 1994[/caption]Fifty years ago this month, the world held its breath…

[caption id="attachment_55234669" align="alignnone" width="620"] (Photo credit: RICHMIX)[/caption] Algeria celebrates 50 years of independence this…

[caption id="attachment_55234653" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iranian soldier wearing a mask against chemical weapons used by Saddam Hussein.[…

[caption id="attachment_55234630" align="alignnone" width="613"] Screenshot from The Repentant, Merzak Allouache (2012)[/caption] The Repentant is…

[caption id="attachment_55234614" align="aligncenter" width="620"] 15th February 1955: A twelve-year-old Sea Cadet trying out a new Sterling Sub…

[caption id="attachment_55234587" align="aligncenter" width="640"] "The Machete", a new book from acclaimed Egyptian author Ahmed Towfik, is released…

[caption id="attachment_55234568" align="aligncenter" width="620"] One of the oldest stories in the collection, "House of Flesh" by Yusuf Idris,…