[caption id="attachment_55233686" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Retired teacher Rahim Demirbas has planted thirty-five thousand trees around his village (Photo © N. Birch)[/caption]I first met…

[caption id="attachment_55233625" align="alignleft" width="620"] Arabic Beat cd cover[/caption] [inset_left]Arabic Beat Released July 2012 Putumayo World Music[/inset_left] Putumayo World Music,…

[caption id="attachment_55233531" align="alignnone" width="620"] (credit: Marchina) Boys stand in front of one of the concrete barricades in Mohammed Mahmoud street[/caption] Swiss artist Jean-Luc…

[caption id="attachment_55233519" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A file photo of the Pentagon's THAAD anti-missile defense rocket[/caption]The US has a long-standing commitment to the Gulf States…

[caption id="attachment_55233408" align="alignnone" width="620"] Brigitte Lacombe: Sudan Running Team[/caption] Entering the exhibition Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport at Sotheby’s in London, I stop by…

[caption id="attachment_55233332" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Syrian refugees wash clothes at the Zaatari Camp, Jordan’s first official camp for Syrian refugees[/caption]The global response to…

[caption id="attachment_55233321" align="aligncenter" width="620"] US Repulican party presidential candidate Mitt Romney stands in front of a picture of the Jerusalem Old City walls at an event in…

[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…