by Yasmine El-Geressi
Born in Cairo in 1972 to an Egyptian mother and a Saudi father, Shalemar Sharbatly is an accomplished painter who burst onto the scene aged 13 when her artwork was published…
[caption id="attachment_55254843" align="aligncenter" width="4500"] A Rohingya girl cries as refugees fleeing from Myanmar cross a stream in the hot sun on a muddy rice field on October 16, 2017 near…
[caption id="attachment_55254738" align="aligncenter" width="4131"] Kurdish refugee children from the Syrian town of Kobani look on near makeshift tents in a camp in the southeastern town of Suruc,…
[caption id="attachment_55254692" align="aligncenter" width="3328"] Mao Tse Toung (1893-1976) chinese president here during review of army of The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Pekin,…
[caption id="attachment_55254449" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Your Love Is Fire at Summerhall, Edinburgh part of the Arab Arts Focus in this year’s festival.[/caption]
by Bryn Haworth*
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[caption id="attachment_55254423" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Large solar panels are seen in a solar power plant in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on May 8, 2013. …
[caption id="attachment_55254375" align="aligncenter" width="1488"]Princess Of Wales In Hong Kong Wearing A Pearl And Diamond Tiara Which Was A Wedding Gift From The Queen.(Photo by Tim Graham/Getty…
by Nadia Turki
A leading figure in the Arab culture and art scenes, H.E. Shaikha Mai has spearheaded national efforts to develop the cultural infrastructure in the Kingdom of Bahrain for heritage…
The Kerfuffle Over Food and Cultural Identity
by Ghada Fathi
The relationship between food and identity is inextricable. History books are full of “sha’abi foods” for almost all nations, and…
[caption id="attachment_55254082" align="aligncenter" width="900"] 1. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu brings his VR experience "Carne y Arena" to LACMA. (Robert Gauthier / Los…
A US envoy wants the institutions of western Libya to accommodate the son of an eastern warlord as Libyan president. Is this another doomed effort to unite the feuding factions, or could it work?
As the FIFA World Cup 2026 shows, identity, belonging, and tension combine to make football fandom unlike any other sport. So, what is going on in fans' brains?
Beijing's duty-free access for African exports promises mutual economic gains, but more importantly, it deepens its strategic influence across the continent