[escenic_image id="55101553"]Marjane Satrapi has been publishing graphic novels since the beginning of the new millennium. But it wasn’t until the 2007 Cannes Film Festival that the Paris-based…

[escenic_image id="55100877"] In Jail with Nazim Hikmet Orhan Kemal Saqi Books 2010 £10.99 “Your master’s coming.” “No,” Orhan said, “I don’t have a master—or anyone of the kind.” “Look at…

[escenic_image id="5595939"] Over the past five years the world has begun looking to the Middle East for contemporary art. The considerable rise in official arts funding and the competitive building…

[escenic_image id="5592822"] The Time that Remains: Chronicle of A Present Absentee tells the life story of Elia Suleiman, beginning with his father Fuad’s violent resistance to the founding of…

The Arabs: A HistoryEugene RoganAllen Lane 2009£23.00In 2005, Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir wrote “Its not pleasant being Arab these days … Feelings of persecution for some, self hatred for others…

[escenic_image id="5587184"] Eclipse of the Sunnis By Deborah Amos Public Affairs, 2010 Hardback £10.50 Sectarianism remains the key issue in Iraqi politics. Post invasion efforts to create a…

[escenic_image id="5585388"]Rachid Koraichi, born in Ain Beida, Algeria in 1947, now lives and works in Tunisia and France. His ability to work with an impressive range of media—including ceramics,…

[escenic_image id="5582961"]Last May, at the renowned US military academy of West Point, President Barack Obama introduced the new US national security doctrine, formally expressed in the National…

[escenic_image id="5580676"]The Tea Party began to grow and spread across the nation with protest rallies in various states and in Washington, DC in 2009, largely in response to President Barack…

[escenic_image id="5579244"]    For over 40 years, Abbas Kiarostami has been known for his prolific contribution to Iranian cinema. According to historian Hamid Dabashi, Kiarostami and his fellow…