[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…

The French have long recognized the literary merit of Abdellatif Laâbi’s work. His writing, often compared to that of Pablo Neruda and Nazim Hikmet, was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 2009 and the…

[caption id="attachment_55238921" align="alignnone" width="620"] The daily newspaper Al-Ahram is sold in Tahrir Square on March 4 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Source: Kim Badawi/Getty Images[…

[caption id="attachment_55238860" align="alignnone" width="620"] Nadim Karam. Source: Celia Topping[/caption]Located next door to the Halcyon Gallery and above the Ralph Lauren store on New Bond…

[caption id="attachment_55238716" align="alignnone" width="574"] Nasmi (R) in Aleppo on February 24, 2013. [/caption] In Aleppo, as in other, less troubled cities, stars are born on YouTube. That is…

[caption id="attachment_55238676" align="alignnone" width="620"] A view of Istanbul from the Galalta Tower. Source: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images[/caption]Speaking at a press conference at the…

[caption id="attachment_55238644" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iraqi's protest against Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Kirkuk, February 2013. Source: MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images).[/caption] …

[caption id="attachment_55238551" align="alignnone" width="620"] Great mosque of Samarra, excavation photograph, 1911-13. Source: Juliet Highet[/caption]As the acrid dust dies down from the war in…