[caption id="attachment_55245766" align="alignnone" width="620"] A still from Feeding 500. (Rafed Al-Harthi/ Ray Hadded)[/caption] Many people would claim to be cat lovers, but very few would…

[caption id="attachment_55245684" align="alignnone" width="620"] Buckets of pearls at the V&A's Pearls exhibition (James Hanna/V&A/Qatar Museum's Authority)[/caption]A large, seventeenth…

[caption id="attachment_55245600" align="alignnone" width="594"] A child pulls a suitcase as Syrian refugees arrive in Turkey at the Cilvegözü crossing gate of Reyhanlı, on August 31, 2013. (Bulent…

[caption id="attachment_55245548" align="alignnone" width="620"] Khaled Takreti"Chaos," 2013, Acrylic on Canvas(Courtesy of the artist and Ayyam Gallery)[/caption] “Freedom is when someone can…

[caption id="attachment_55245431" align="alignnone" width="620"]Barbed wire between Bab Al-Tabbaneh and Jebel Mohsen on Syria Street, Tripoli, Lebanon. (The Majalla/Hannah Lucinda Smith)[/caption…

[caption id="attachment_55245395" align="alignnone" width="620"] Wine horn with gazelle protome, Sasanian period, 4th century, silver gilt. (courtesy: Juliet Highet)[/caption]For over 1,000 years,…

[caption id="attachment_55245242" align="alignnone" width="620"] Donkey painted by Marwa Adel. (CARAVAN)[/caption]On August 30, St. Paul's Cathedral in London inaugurated an exhibition of life-sized…

[caption id="attachment_55245048" align="aligncenter" width="620"] In this handout image provided by the U.S. Navy, The USS Barry launches a Tomahawk missile in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn…

[caption id="attachment_55245031" align="alignnone" width="620"] Mother and child portrait. (Hengameh Golestan)[/caption]Hengameh Golestan’s work intimately documents four decades of life in Iran—she…

[caption id="attachment_55244973" align="alignnone" width="620"] Al-Khayal Al-Shaabi perform their Traffic dance routine during the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival in March 2013. (Mohammed…