[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…

[caption id="attachment_55244477" align="alignnone" width="620"] Still image from video Concrete, 2012 (Khaled Jarrar)[/caption]“I am not a political artist,” insists Khaled Jarrar, the Palestinian…

[caption id="attachment_55244234" align="alignnone" width="620"] A scene from Round Trip (Meyar Al Roumi, 2012)[/caption] His voice was soft and jaunty, with that endearing sing-song rhythm of the…

[caption id="attachment_55237457" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Flags are displayed on US Capitol as preparations continue for the second inauguration of US President Barack Obama in Washington on…