Secrets and surveillance: a look at Washington’s spy museum

Israel's intelligence-led operation against Iran has thrust the world's second oldest profession back into the spotlight. An interactive building in the American capital offers intriguing insight.

Osama Esber

Learning from Past Mistakes

[inset_left]The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and the Struggle for the Post-Qadhafi Future Edited by Jason Pack Palgrave Macmillan, 2013[/inset_left]Jason Pack has assembled articles by both new and well…

Noel Brehony

The Arabic Slur

[caption id="attachment_55246566" align="alignnone" width="620"] Lebanese Sheikh Hussein Zayat, a calligrapher copies out pages of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, onto sheets of paper. (MAHMOUD…

Malik al-Abdeh

The Kemalists' Veil of Tolerance

[caption id="attachment_55246534" align="alignnone" width="594"] Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party MP Nurcan Dalbudak (L) is greeted wearing a headscarf as she attends a general assembly…

Nicholas Birch

Razeq and the Caliph

[caption id="attachment_55246392" align="alignnone" width="620"] Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the 99th caliph and the last sultan to exert effective control over the Ottoman Empire.[/caption] For 1,300…

Abdullah Al-Rashid

A Tale of Five Cities

[caption id="attachment_55246443" align="alignnone" width="620"] The sun rises behind the Blue Mosque in the Sultanahmet area of Istanbul on February 22, 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey. ( Dan Kitwood/Getty…

Vedica Kant

No Time for the Olive Branch

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

Tam Hussein

The Messenger

[caption id="attachment_55246280" align="alignnone" width="620"] Abdulnasser Gharem, Portrait of the Artist from the Performance Flora and Fauna, 2007 (Courtesy Edge of Arabia )[/caption] …

Tara Aghdashloo

Playing in the Dark

[caption id="attachment_55246116" align="alignnone" width="620"] Al Nour Wa Amal playing in Laeiszhalle, Hamburg. (Ati Metwaly)[/caption]Wherever in the world Al Nour Wal Amal perform, they elicit an…

Ati Metwaly

A Power Façade

[caption id="attachment_55246097" align="alignnone" width="620"] 'Missed' by Mourad Salem, mixed media on canvas. (Courtesy:Rose Issa Projects)[/caption] An intriguingly titled exhibition, Sultans…

Juliet Highet

I am Israeli

[caption id="attachment_55246020" align="alignnone" width="594"] Israeli Arab children play inside an air ball in a swimming pool as Muslims celebrate the Eid Al-Fitr holiday on August 20, 2012 in…

Jonathan Cook