[caption id="attachment_55246966" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrian refugees shelter under a makeshift tent in an Istanbul park on November 3, 2013. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] …

[caption id="attachment_55246885" align="alignnone" width="614"] Salah El Brogy performing Hurriyeh to calligraphy by Soraya Syed (both artists/ Nour Festival)[/caption] You would not expect a…

[caption id="attachment_55246819" align="alignnone" width="620"] Soudabeh ArdavanPrison Sketches©Soudabeh Ardavan[/caption] The old "suffering artist" cliché takes on a new meaning when it comes to…

[inset_left]The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and the Struggle for the Post-Qadhafi Future Edited by Jason Pack Palgrave Macmillan, 2013[/inset_left]Jason Pack has assembled articles by both new and well…

[caption id="attachment_55246566" align="alignnone" width="620"] Lebanese Sheikh Hussein Zayat, a calligrapher copies out pages of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, onto sheets of paper. (MAHMOUD…

[caption id="attachment_55246534" align="alignnone" width="594"] Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party MP Nurcan Dalbudak (L) is greeted wearing a headscarf as she attends a general assembly…

[caption id="attachment_55246392" align="alignnone" width="620"] Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the 99th caliph and the last sultan to exert effective control over the Ottoman Empire.[/caption] For 1,300…

[caption id="attachment_55246443" align="alignnone" width="620"] The sun rises behind the Blue Mosque in the Sultanahmet area of Istanbul on February 22, 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey. ( Dan Kitwood/Getty…

[caption id="attachment_55246307" align="alignnone" width="620"]Samia Halaby"Sunrise Green" (Courtesy of the Ayyam Gallery)[/caption]In her words, Palestinian artist and academic Samia Halaby has the…

[caption id="attachment_55246280" align="alignnone" width="620"] Abdulnasser Gharem, Portrait of the Artist from the Performance Flora and Fauna, 2007 (Courtesy Edge of Arabia )[/caption] …