[caption id="attachment_55240209" align="alignnone" width="620"] Elias Khoury[/caption] Elias Khoury’s latest novel to be published in English, White Masks, is actually a work from 1981, written in…

[caption id="attachment_55240186" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saudi director Haifa Al-Mansour. KARIM SAHIBA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES[/caption]Last year’s Doha Tribeca film festival marked a tipping point…

[caption id="attachment_55240177" align="alignnone" width="620"] Aerial view of people on the Mediterranean coast. Getty Images[/caption] The Mediterranean stands torn between renewal and crisis…

[caption id="attachment_55240159" align="alignnone" width="620"] Protesters outside the Tunisian embassy in Stockholm carry placards showing Amina Tyler. AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND[/caption] A…

[caption id="attachment_55239955" align="alignnone" width="620"] “Floos,” Mona Chalabi, 2013. [/caption]During the ten years since the US-led invasion of Iraq, we have been bombarded by statistics…

[caption id="attachment_55239691" align="alignnone" width="620"] Libyan women demonstrate outside the Libyan embassy in London on Libyan Women Pride Day, Thursday March 14, 2013.[/caption] The…

[caption id="attachment_55239658" align="alignnone" width="620"] Haydar Daffa, Iraqi director of The Dreams of Sparrows.[/caption] Ten years ago the world witnessed massive protests against the US…

[caption id="attachment_55239526" align="alignnone" width="620"] A visitor looks at a piece of art called "Children of Iraq" by Lebanese artist Robert Helou at Art Dubai 2012. [/caption]It is a good…

[caption id="attachment_55239372" align="alignnone" width="620"] Mr Abdo Ahmad Mohammad Obeya. Source: Youssef Nabil/Last of The Dictionary Men, photographic series 2008[/caption]Glancing over the…

[caption id="attachment_55239227" align="alignnone" width="620"] The town of Hama in Syria. Hama was the scene of the 1982 massacre of up to 30,000 citizens by the armed forces in the face of an…