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[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…

[caption id="attachment_55240620" align="alignnone" width="620"] An elephant and rider trampling a tiger by Mir Kalan, part of the British Library Mughal India Exhibition. BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD[…

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[caption id="attachment_55241136" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A general view, seen through a bridge barrier, shows the Cairo skyline and the Nile river on December 9, 2012. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP…

[caption id="attachment_55241106" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saloua Raouda Choucair self portrait, 1943. SALOUA RAOUDA CHOUCAIR FOUNDATION.[/caption]The four small rooms that hold the Saloua…

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[caption id="attachment_55241036" align="alignnone" width="620"] A man walks in the Sahara desert that links north and southern Africa. DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images[/caption]Some 400 years ago,…