[caption id="attachment_55234173" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian schoolchildren on a class visit [/caption] The need to overhaul the education system in Egypt has long been recognised by…

[caption id="attachment_55234082" align="alignnone" width="620"] Freida Pinto as Miral in the 2010 film depiction of the novel [/caption] Rula Jebreal’s novel Miral is a heartfelt semi…

[caption id="attachment_55234016" align="aligncenter" width="599"] Still from Captain Abu Raed, Dir. Amin Matalqa, Jordan, 2007 (Photo credit ICA).[/caption]In partnership with the Dubai…

[caption id="attachment_55233980" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Posters welcoming Pope Benedict XVI decorate the Christian port city of Jounieh, north of Beirut, on September 12, 2012. Pope…

[caption id="attachment_55233969" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Egyptian protesters tear down the US flag and wave various black Islamic flags at the US embassy in Cairo on September 11, 2012[…

[caption id="attachment_55233836" align="alignnone" width="620"] Traffic in Istanbul[/caption] [inset_left]plaka [pi-LYA-ka] n. number plate. This rectangular piece of aluminium is an important…

[caption id="attachment_55233813" align="alignnone" width="620"] Abdellah Taïa, one of the 39 featured writers[/caption]Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World is an anthology of writing by young…

[caption id="attachment_55233769" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Relatives of Sevil Sevimli, a 19-year-old French student of Turkish descent who was arrested and detained in Turkey on suspicion of…

[caption id="attachment_55233703" align="alignnone" width="620"] David Roberts: El Deir, Petra[/caption] The Victorians were fascinated by scenes of far-off lands, in particular by what was…

[caption id="attachment_55233686" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Retired teacher Rahim Demirbas has planted thirty-five thousand trees around his village (Photo © N. Birch)[/caption]I first met…