[caption id="attachment_55230654" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Marcel Khalife (credit: Qatar Philharmonic)"][/caption] The Qatar Philharmonic is not just another classical music hall,…

The aftermath of an Arab Spring was initially a time of joy for the role many women played during those days of revolution. However, from West to East, there is still much to be accomplished. The…

[caption id="attachment_552302" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Installation view of 'Endless' Cai Guo-Qiang"][/caption] The exhibition opened explosively—literally—over a vast…

In Egypt, on the eleventh of February 2011—the night president Hosni Mubarak resigned and handed over power to the army—a revolution was on the move, but the next day, it was a female reporter who…

[caption id="attachment_55230135" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Ceylan references Sergio Leone the film's title, and more."][/caption] Acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan…

[caption id="attachment_55230091" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="(photo credit: Mourad Heshmat)"][/caption] No other country in the Middle East has an Opera House with a history of almost…

[caption id="attachment_55230054" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="WolfPakistan are playing as part of Performance Night at Art Dubai in the Madinat Jumeirah (Photo Credit: Art Dubai)"][…

[caption id="attachment_55230035" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Egyptian Coptic Christians carry the coffin of Coptic Pope Shenouda III"][/caption] As he followed the ambulance carrying…

Osama: The Making of a Terrorist Jonathan Randal I.B Tauris 2012 (revised edition) Strangely, for a book named after its subject, the new, revised edition of Jonathan Randal’s ‘Osama: The…

[caption id="attachment_552298" align="aligncenter" width="495" caption="Reception Room (Qa'a), dated A.H. 1119/A.D. 1707Syria, Damascus (Photo credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)"…