[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…

[caption id="attachment_55232607" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Russia's President Vladimir Putin stands at Georgiyevsky (the St.George) hall in the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow, on June 12,…

[caption id="attachment_55232497" align="alignnone" width="620"] Traditional Ottoman army band perform during the 559th anniversary of the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire.[/caption] …

[caption id="attachment_55232465" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Egyptian demonstrators shout slogans against former President Hosni Mubarak and members of former regime in Cairo's…