[caption id="attachment_55234456" align="alignnone" width="540"] Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi[/caption] Jerusalem is a beautiful, inspiring work, as much about communities and cultures, festivity…

[caption id="attachment_55234423" align="alignnone" width="620"] Neşet Ertaş, the Turkish folk music singer and lyrics writer.[/caption]Âşık [AA-sheuk] n. How the death of a famous…

[caption id="attachment_55234303" align="alignnone" width="620"] A community pose outside one of the Village Institutes, mid 1930s.[/caption]After its establishment, the Turkish Republic (under the…

[caption id="attachment_55234266" align="alignnone" width="620"] An artist at work on the commemorative mural in the Shatila refugee camp[/caption]On 6th September 2012, with the participation of…

[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…