[caption id="attachment_55231520" align="alignnone" width="607" caption="The Connoisseurs by Gyula Tornai"][/caption] Egyptian collector of Orientalist art, Shafik Gabr, believes that Orientalism…

[caption id="attachment_55231473" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A man reads Al-Ahram newspaper in a backstreet cafe just off Cairo's Tahrir square"][/caption] Why let facts get in…

[caption id="attachment_55231405" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="A scene from Promised Lands (Susan Sontag, 1974)"][/caption] From 20 April through 3 May, the Palestine Film Festival brings…

[inset_left]Hamas: From Resistance to Government By Paola Caridi Seven Stories Press, New York [/inset_left]In this new book, Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi sets herself an ambitious…

[caption id="attachment_55231344" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="Adel Imam accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Doha Tribeca Film Festival"][/caption] Adel Imam’s case is one…

[caption id="attachment_55231107" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="Laila Shawa with her work (Credit: Amy Assad)"][/caption] “Me being a Palestinian, I guess, may have something to do with the…

[caption id="attachment_55230713" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Live music from the duo Fantazia"][/caption] At a time when diplomacy and journalism seem not to be doing much for Syria,…

[caption id="attachment_55230654" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Marcel Khalife (credit: Qatar Philharmonic)"][/caption] The Qatar Philharmonic is not just another classical music hall,…

The aftermath of an Arab Spring was initially a time of joy for the role many women played during those days of revolution. However, from West to East, there is still much to be accomplished. The…

[caption id="attachment_552302" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Installation view of 'Endless' Cai Guo-Qiang"][/caption] The exhibition opened explosively—literally—over a vast…