[caption id="attachment_55233313" align="alignnone" width="620"] The Fear of Breathing [/caption] Rarely has theatre responded so swiftly to pressing current events as with the production of the play…

[caption id="attachment_55233236" align="alignnone" width="620"] Anthony Shadid[/caption] House of Stone is both memoir and meditation and a distinctive contribution to Arab-American literature and…

[caption id="attachment_55233189" align="alignnone" width="620"] Nermine Hammam Upekkha series[/caption] Art at the Mosaic Rooms A solo show of the Egyptian artist Nermine Hammam at the Mosaic…

[caption id="attachment_55233166" align="alignnone" width="620"] (Credit: Samir Sayegh)[/caption] Calligraphy has always been a part of the development of written language. Calligraphy by Muslim…

[caption id="attachment_55233076" align="alignnone width="528"] Credit: David Constantine[/caption] David Constantine’s photography expresses a dignified humanism. His images are often striking, but…

[caption id="attachment_55232938" align="alignnone" width="620"] Bahaa Taher[/caption] Bahaa Taher was born 1935, in Giza (Greater Cairo), to parents from the Karnak village in the Luxor governorate…

[caption id="attachment_55232857" align="alignnone" width="620"] This Is Not a Film - Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (2011)[/caption] White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour, a young…

[caption id="attachment_55232772" align="alignnone" width="620"] Standard of Ur, southern Iraq, circa 2600-2400 BC[/caption] How many courtly poems have been written to the Arabian horse? How many…

[caption id="attachment_55232644" align="alignnone" width="600"] Nadine Labaki in Where Do We Go Now (2011)[/caption] The film is a tale of one unspecified Arab village—likely in Lebanon where the…

[caption id="attachment_55232622" align="alignnone" width="597"] His Holiness the Dalai Lama[/caption] Speaking with warmth and candor at LSE on Wednesday, the Dalai Lama called for greater respect…