[caption id="attachment_55241036" align="alignnone" width="620"] A man walks in the Sahara desert that links north and southern Africa. DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images[/caption]Some 400 years ago,…

[caption id="attachment_55240891" align="alignnone" width="620"] George Bahgory at the opening of his exhibition. ATI METWALY.[/caption]Standing at the crossroads between expressionism, surrealism…

[caption id="attachment_55240395" align="alignnone" width="620"] Translator’s Introduction: Pension Arts in Dubai. WALID RAAD/ GALLERY SFEIR-SEMLER[/caption]Lebanese artist Walid Raad rose to…

[caption id="attachment_55240376" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A woman walks in an alley of the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, where Hedayat was buried following his suicide, on March 12, 2013…

[caption id="attachment_55240256" align="alignnone" width="620"] A young boy is seen under a giant flag carried by protesters in Tahrir Square in 2011. ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES[/caption] [inset…

[caption id="attachment_55240209" align="alignnone" width="620"] Elias Khoury[/caption] Elias Khoury’s latest novel to be published in English, White Masks, is actually a work from 1981, written in…

[caption id="attachment_55240186" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saudi director Haifa Al-Mansour. KARIM SAHIBA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES[/caption]Last year’s Doha Tribeca film festival marked a tipping point…

[caption id="attachment_55240177" align="alignnone" width="620"] Aerial view of people on the Mediterranean coast. Getty Images[/caption] The Mediterranean stands torn between renewal and crisis…

[caption id="attachment_55240159" align="alignnone" width="620"] Protesters outside the Tunisian embassy in Stockholm carry placards showing Amina Tyler. AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND[/caption] A…

[caption id="attachment_55239955" align="alignnone" width="620"] “Floos,” Mona Chalabi, 2013. [/caption]During the ten years since the US-led invasion of Iraq, we have been bombarded by statistics…