[caption id="attachment_55245600" align="alignnone" width="594"] A child pulls a suitcase as Syrian refugees arrive in Turkey at the Cilvegözü crossing gate of Reyhanlı, on August 31, 2013. (Bulent…

[caption id="attachment_55245548" align="alignnone" width="620"] Khaled Takreti"Chaos," 2013, Acrylic on Canvas(Courtesy of the artist and Ayyam Gallery)[/caption] “Freedom is when someone can…

[caption id="attachment_55245431" align="alignnone" width="620"]Barbed wire between Bab Al-Tabbaneh and Jebel Mohsen on Syria Street, Tripoli, Lebanon. (The Majalla/Hannah Lucinda Smith)[/caption…

[caption id="attachment_55245395" align="alignnone" width="620"] Wine horn with gazelle protome, Sasanian period, 4th century, silver gilt. (courtesy: Juliet Highet)[/caption]For over 1,000 years,…

[caption id="attachment_55245242" align="alignnone" width="620"] Donkey painted by Marwa Adel. (CARAVAN)[/caption]On August 30, St. Paul's Cathedral in London inaugurated an exhibition of life-sized…

[caption id="attachment_55245048" align="aligncenter" width="620"] In this handout image provided by the U.S. Navy, The USS Barry launches a Tomahawk missile in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn…

[caption id="attachment_55245031" align="alignnone" width="620"] Mother and child portrait. (Hengameh Golestan)[/caption]Hengameh Golestan’s work intimately documents four decades of life in Iran—she…

[caption id="attachment_55244973" align="alignnone" width="620"] Al-Khayal Al-Shaabi perform their Traffic dance routine during the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival in March 2013. (Mohammed…

[caption id="attachment_55244779" align="alignnone" width="620"] Hafed Al-Droubi in his studio in Baghdad in 1952. (Courtesy of Mina Al-Droubi)[/caption] Displayed in the British Museum’s Islamic…

[caption id="attachment_55244786" align="alignnone" width="594"] Lebanese American University of Beirut alumni. (Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]I recently read the results of a survey…