Yasmina Nysten and the elusive nature of memory

In Memory Keepers, the Finnish-Lebanese artist explores the fragile boundaries between memory and imagination, presence and disappearance

Mimoza Al-Arrawi

Umm Kulthoum ... The Voice of Eternity

[caption id="attachment_55255190" align="aligncenter" width="2865"] by Ali Mandalawi[/caption] by Moncef Al-Mazghani 1. Umm Kulthoum was born Fatima Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Beltaghi. Her father lead…

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The Hidden Refugee Health Crisis

[caption id="attachment_55254926" align="aligncenter" width="5000"] Lebanese medical student examines displaced refugee woman. Getty)[/caption] On a cold January night near Istanbul’s Taksim Square,…

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Religion and Violence in Myanmar

[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…

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Imagining Refugia

[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,…

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The Postcolonial Cold War

[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,…

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Midsummer Madness at the Home Office

[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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The Nuclear Option

[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. …

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