[caption id="attachment_55234938" align="alignnone" width="614"] Turkish actress Neslihan Atagül in a scene from “Araf/ Somewhere in Between.” (credit: Today's Zaman)[/caption] Film festival season…

[caption id="attachment_55234856" align="alignnone" width="620"] Anti-Assad protesters in Syria[/caption] Stephen Starr spent several years in Syria prior to the uprising against Bashar Al-Assad,…

[caption id="attachment_55234810" align="alignnone" width="600"] Tea and Coffee by Nadia Hamomud (credit: Nour Festival/Nadia Hammoud)[/caption]Taking place primarily during October and November, the…

[caption id="attachment_55234760" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Front page of the embattled Turkish newspaper, Taraf, 22 October 2012.[/caption] Taraf [ta-RAF ] n. side, facet Taraf olmak [ta…

[caption id="attachment_55234669" align="alignnone" width="620"] (Photo credit: RICHMIX)[/caption] Algeria celebrates 50 years of independence this year. To mark this occasion, RICHMIX is hosting a…

[caption id="attachment_55234630" align="alignnone" width="613"] Screenshot from The Repentant, Merzak Allouache (2012)[/caption] The Repentant is an Algerian film directed by Merzak Allouache (Bab…

[caption id="attachment_55234587" align="aligncenter" width="640"] "The Machete", a new book from acclaimed Egyptian author Ahmed Towfik, is released this month. SOURCE: ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP/Getty…

[caption id="attachment_55234568" align="aligncenter" width="620"] One of the oldest stories in the collection, "House of Flesh" by Yusuf Idris, tells of the marriage of a widow to a blind Qu'ran…

[caption id="attachment_55234548" align="alignnone" width="620"] Screenshot from 5 Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi[/caption] The tiny Palestinian village of Bil’in has become the frontline…

[caption id="attachment_55234529" align="alignnone" width="620"] The Battle of Manzikert[/caption] Malazgirt [MA-laz-geert] n. (place name) Manzikert Who won the Battle of Manzikert, or Malazgirt,…