[caption id="attachment_55240159" align="alignnone" width="620"] Protesters outside the Tunisian embassy in Stockholm carry placards showing Amina Tyler. AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND[/caption] A…

[caption id="attachment_55239955" align="alignnone" width="620"] “Floos,” Mona Chalabi, 2013. [/caption]During the ten years since the US-led invasion of Iraq, we have been bombarded by statistics…

[caption id="attachment_55239691" align="alignnone" width="620"] Libyan women demonstrate outside the Libyan embassy in London on Libyan Women Pride Day, Thursday March 14, 2013.[/caption] The…

[caption id="attachment_55239658" align="alignnone" width="620"] Haydar Daffa, Iraqi director of The Dreams of Sparrows.[/caption] Ten years ago the world witnessed massive protests against the US…

[caption id="attachment_55239526" align="alignnone" width="620"] A visitor looks at a piece of art called "Children of Iraq" by Lebanese artist Robert Helou at Art Dubai 2012. [/caption]It is a good…

[caption id="attachment_55239372" align="alignnone" width="620"] Mr Abdo Ahmad Mohammad Obeya. Source: Youssef Nabil/Last of The Dictionary Men, photographic series 2008[/caption]Glancing over the…

[caption id="attachment_55239227" align="alignnone" width="620"] The town of Hama in Syria. Hama was the scene of the 1982 massacre of up to 30,000 citizens by the armed forces in the face of an…

The French have long recognized the literary merit of Abdellatif Laâbi’s work. His writing, often compared to that of Pablo Neruda and Nazim Hikmet, was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 2009 and the…

[caption id="attachment_55238921" align="alignnone" width="620"] The daily newspaper Al-Ahram is sold in Tahrir Square on March 4 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Source: Kim Badawi/Getty Images[…

[caption id="attachment_55238860" align="alignnone" width="620"] Nadim Karam. Source: Celia Topping[/caption]Located next door to the Halcyon Gallery and above the Ralph Lauren store on New Bond…