Art critic Azeddine Bourkia on our relationship with images

With the publication of his contemplative new book, the Moroccan has focused on photography and the art of the image, which can both conceal and reveal.

Imad Eddine Moussa

Classroom Conservatism

[caption id="attachment_55238033" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Moroccan girl stands behind a window in her home. Source: FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] “You came here without any form of…

Mohamed El Kachtoul

Jews of Egypt

[caption id="attachment_55237686" align="alignnone" width="620"] Still from Jews of Egypt with Mounir Murad Source: Amir Ramses[/caption]There is no census that would give us the exact number of…

Ati Metwaly

Lawrence of Legend

[caption id="attachment_55237637" align="alignnone" width="620"] T.E. Lawrence (left), better known as Lawrence Of Arabia, with American broadcaster and explorer Lowell Thomas, circa 1925.[/caption] …

Hugh Pope

Leading the Way

[caption id="attachment_55237567" align="alignnone" width="620"] Awateef Abu Malyana. Source: Ahmed El Amraoui[/caption]When Awateef Abu Malyana told her family about her wish to become a journalist,…

Ahmed El Amraoui

The Lebanese Method

[caption id="attachment_55237508" align="alignnone" width="620"] Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Source: David Levenson/Getty Images[/caption] [inset_left]Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb Allen Lane/Penguin…

Nicholas Blincoe

Artists vs Islamists

[caption id="attachment_55237272" align="alignnone" width="620"] Artists protest against the recent crackdowns on artistic freedoms in Egypt. Source: Ati Metwaly[/caption]On 13 December 2012, a large…

Ati Metwaly

PKK–Ankara Talks Resume

[caption id="attachment_55237195" align="alignnone" width="620"] Supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party wave flags and hold up a poster of Abdullah Öcalan as they attend the party’s…

Hugh Pope

Disappointment for Egypt's Copts

[caption id="attachment_55237136" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian Coptic Christian women attend Christmas midnight mass led by Pope Tawadros II late on 6 January 2013. Source: KHALED DESOUKI…

Alastair Beach

Non-Fiction Heroine

[caption id="attachment_55237101" align="alignnone" width="620"] Samar Yazbek in Saint Malo, France.[/caption] [inset_right]A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution Samar Yazbek…

Grace Perriman