Vincent van Gogh painted sunflowers and starry nights from Arles, Paul Gauguin painted landscapes and Polynesian women from Tahiti, while in Tangier, Henri Matisse enhanced his palette.
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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…
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The Mediterranean stands torn between renewal and crisis…
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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…
[caption id="attachment_55239691" align="alignnone" width="620"] Libyan women demonstrate outside the Libyan embassy in London on Libyan Women Pride Day, Thursday March 14, 2013.[/caption]
The…
[caption id="attachment_55239658" align="alignnone" width="620"] Haydar Daffa, Iraqi director of The Dreams of Sparrows.[/caption]
Ten years ago the world witnessed massive protests against the US…
[caption id="attachment_55239526" align="alignnone" width="620"] A visitor looks at a piece of art called "Children of Iraq" by Lebanese artist Robert Helou at Art Dubai 2012. [/caption]It is a good…
[caption id="attachment_55239372" align="alignnone" width="620"] Mr Abdo Ahmad Mohammad Obeya. Source: Youssef Nabil/Last of The Dictionary Men, photographic series 2008[/caption]Glancing over the…
[caption id="attachment_55239227" align="alignnone" width="620"] The town of Hama in Syria. Hama was the scene of the 1982 massacre of up to 30,000 citizens by the armed forces in the face of an…
There was visible warmth when the US and Syrian presidents met in the Oval Office last month, with some even speculating a Trump visit to Damascus. But there is much to do before that happens.
Following the unprecedented attacks on Qatar, Gulf leaders have pledged to forge a unified defence front, marking a historic shift from cautious neutrality to collective security
What began as a locally rooted trade in coca leaves and opium evolved into a transnational system of cartels that challenged governments, corrupted institutions, and destabilised countries
When Israel killed a Hezbollah military chief in late November, one GBU-39 bomb failed to detonate, leaving Washington worried that its adversaries could reverse engineer it
With her collection 'Con' having won Spain's 2025 National Poetry Prize, the Galician writer spoke to Al Majalla about the process of creation as she works on her first novel.