Mona Hatoum meets Giacometti in London exhibition

A contemporary Palestinian artist grapples with the same existential questions that Italian sculptor Alberto Giacometti once posed

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The Christian Origins of Mothering Sunday

[caption id="attachment_55253105" align="aligncenter" width="3651"] Rose window stained glass in the San Camillo Church in Milano, Italy. This wonderful "gothic rosone" was created by an anonymous…

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Making Syria’s ‘Cries’ heard

[caption id="attachment_55253103" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 07: President, HBO Documentary Films Sheila Nevins introduces the New York Premiere of Cries From Syria at…

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Baghdad — A City in Verse

by Joseph Braude* Iraq’s 1,251-year-old capital was built by a Muslim empire that held the torch of civilization in the eighth and ninth centuries of the Common Era. In the thirteenth century…

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'Speed Sisters' of the West Bank

[caption id="attachment_55252928" align="aligncenter" width="3500"] DOHA, QATAR - Mona Ennab, Maysoon Jayyusi, director Amber Fares, Noor Daoud, Betty Saadeh and Marah Zahalka attend the Opening…

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A Future of the English-Speaking Peoples

[caption id="attachment_55252914" align="aligncenter" width="2764"] War and Conflict, World War II, Political Personalities, pic: 4th July 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leaving No 10…

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