[caption id="attachment_55242290" align="alignnone" width="620"] A demonstration outside the Egyptian High Court in Cairo on April 17, 2013. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images[/caption][inset_left…

[caption id="attachment_55242213" align="alignnone" width="620"] FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] The Antarctic penguins may not be aware, but they have become a symbol of resistance in…

[caption id="attachment_55242162" align="alignnone" width="620"] The Cairo Opera Ballet Company performing Verdi's Aida in May 2013. (MOURAD HESHMAT)[/caption] Last month, during a session of the…

[caption id="attachment_55241964" align="alignnone" width="620"] Phea, mother of God, riding her lions to fight with the Giants in a reconstruction of the Zeus Altar from Pergamum, now in modern day…

[caption id="attachment_55241969" align="alignnone" width="620"] A woman checks books in a bookstore in Istanbul. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images[/caption]When Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize in…

[caption id="attachment_55241806" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saudi students sit for their final high school exams at the end of the school year in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, June 19, 2010…

[caption id="attachment_55241655" align="alignnone" width="620"] Veteran war correspondent Medyan Daireh. Courtesy Medyan Daireh[/caption]I have only covered war twice in my life: once in 2006, when…

[caption id="attachment_55241542" align="alignnone" width="620"] Scanograms #1, Image 09, Samira in her wedding gown, the first Christian wedding in Lod after 1948. (DOR GUEZ/THE MOSAIC ROOMS)[…

[caption id="attachment_55241496" align="alignnone" width="620"] Safwan Dahoul. CELIA TOPPING[/caption]Safwan Dahoul’s distinctive canvases, characterized by elegant curvature of line and the…

[caption id="attachment_55241263" align="alignnone" width="620"] Armenian Muslim Hidir Boztas in his yard on April 23, 2013 in the Turkish village of Mazgirt in Tunceli province. For nearly a century…