[caption id="attachment_55234222" align="alignnone" width="620"] Arab cinema looking towards the future[/caption] On 21 September a Friday Forum was held on Arab film at the ICA as the opening event…

[caption id="attachment_55234209" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish official language aims to mirror the monumentality of the mausoleum of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Ataturk.[/caption]…

[caption id="attachment_55234199" align="alignnone" width="620"] Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Beethoven'sFourth Symphony at the BBC Proms[/caption] This year’s BBC…

[caption id="attachment_55234186" align="alignnone" width="620"] Ayatollah Khomeini[/caption] [inset_left]Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–88 By James Blight, janet…

[caption id="attachment_55234173" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian schoolchildren on a class visit [/caption] The need to overhaul the education system in Egypt has long been recognised by…

[caption id="attachment_55234082" align="alignnone" width="620"] Freida Pinto as Miral in the 2010 film depiction of the novel [/caption] Rula Jebreal’s novel Miral is a heartfelt semi…

[caption id="attachment_55234016" align="aligncenter" width="599"] Still from Captain Abu Raed, Dir. Amin Matalqa, Jordan, 2007 (Photo credit ICA).[/caption]In partnership with the Dubai…

[caption id="attachment_55233980" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Posters welcoming Pope Benedict XVI decorate the Christian port city of Jounieh, north of Beirut, on September 12, 2012. Pope…

[caption id="attachment_55233969" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Egyptian protesters tear down the US flag and wave various black Islamic flags at the US embassy in Cairo on September 11, 2012[…

[caption id="attachment_55233836" align="alignnone" width="620"] Traffic in Istanbul[/caption] [inset_left]plaka [pi-LYA-ka] n. number plate. This rectangular piece of aluminium is an important…