Tunisia’s Tabarka: land of jazz, cork, red coral and nightingales

In this melodious north-western corner of Tunisia, there are plenty of reasons to be wistful, as memories of a glorious cultural era fade. Yet there are also reasons to hope.

Ibrahim Tutunji

Evolutionary, not Revolutionary

[caption id="attachment_55241806" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saudi students sit for their final high school exams at the end of the school year in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, June 19, 2010…

Grace Perriman

A View from the Bridge

[caption id="attachment_55241655" align="alignnone" width="620"] Veteran war correspondent Medyan Daireh. Courtesy Medyan Daireh[/caption]I have only covered war twice in my life: once in 2006, when…

Tam Hussein

Awakening Memories

[caption id="attachment_55241542" align="alignnone" width="620"] Scanograms #1, Image 09, Samira in her wedding gown, the first Christian wedding in Lod after 1948. (DOR GUEZ/THE MOSAIC ROOMS)[…

Amy Assad

In Dreams and Nightmares

[caption id="attachment_55241496" align="alignnone" width="620"] Safwan Dahoul. CELIA TOPPING[/caption]Safwan Dahoul’s distinctive canvases, characterized by elegant curvature of line and the…

Celia Topping

Breaking the Armenian Taboo

[caption id="attachment_55241263" align="alignnone" width="620"] Armenian Muslim Hidir Boztas in his yard on April 23, 2013 in the Turkish village of Mazgirt in Tunceli province. For nearly a century…

Barçin Yinanç

Persia and the Mughals

[caption id="attachment_55240620" align="alignnone" width="620"] An elephant and rider trampling a tiger by Mir Kalan, part of the British Library Mughal India Exhibition. BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD[…

Vedica Kant

A Tale of Two Poets

[caption id="attachment_55241219" align="alignnone" width="620"] Rachida Madani and Marilyn Hacker. TAM HUSSEIN[/caption]Multiculturalism has lately taken a bit of a thrashing from the political and…

Tam Hussein

A Crime against Human History

[caption id="attachment_55241136" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A general view, seen through a bridge barrier, shows the Cairo skyline and the Nile river on December 9, 2012. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP…

Rawan Ezzat

Buried Treasures

[caption id="attachment_55241106" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saloua Raouda Choucair self portrait, 1943. SALOUA RAOUDA CHOUCAIR FOUNDATION.[/caption]The four small rooms that hold the Saloua…

Nicholas Blincoe

Iranian Peacemakers

[caption id="attachment_55241086" align="alignnone" width="620"] Untitled 2009-2013. AHMED MORSHEDLOO/TARA AGHDASHLOO[/caption]The international community does not really expect to read the words …

Tara Aghdashloo