In Egypt, on the eleventh of February 2011—the night president Hosni Mubarak resigned and handed over power to the army—a revolution was on the move, but the next day, it was a female reporter who…

[caption id="attachment_55230135" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Ceylan references Sergio Leone the film's title, and more."][/caption] Acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan…

[caption id="attachment_55230091" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="(photo credit: Mourad Heshmat)"][/caption] No other country in the Middle East has an Opera House with a history of almost…

[caption id="attachment_55230054" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="WolfPakistan are playing as part of Performance Night at Art Dubai in the Madinat Jumeirah (Photo Credit: Art Dubai)"][…

[caption id="attachment_55230035" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Egyptian Coptic Christians carry the coffin of Coptic Pope Shenouda III"][/caption] As he followed the ambulance carrying…

Osama: The Making of a Terrorist Jonathan Randal I.B Tauris 2012 (revised edition) Strangely, for a book named after its subject, the new, revised edition of Jonathan Randal’s ‘Osama: The…

[caption id="attachment_552298" align="aligncenter" width="495" caption="Reception Room (Qa'a), dated A.H. 1119/A.D. 1707Syria, Damascus (Photo credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)"…

[caption id="attachment_55229778" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Mohamed Mahmoud Street"][/caption] Mohamed Mahmoud Street is where the heavy white smoke of tear gas suffocated hundreds of…

[caption id="attachment_55229696" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="(Photo credit: Torstein Blixfjord)"][/caption] One of the Arab world’s premier poets is currently being celebrated at the…

[caption id="attachment_55229610" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Antonio Banderas on the red carpet at the Doha Tribeca Fim Festival 2011"][/caption] The Doha Film Institute (DFI) offers a…