[caption id="attachment_55229778" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Mohamed Mahmoud Street"][/caption] Mohamed Mahmoud Street is where the heavy white smoke of tear gas suffocated hundreds of…

[caption id="attachment_55229696" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="(Photo credit: Torstein Blixfjord)"][/caption] One of the Arab world’s premier poets is currently being celebrated at the…

[caption id="attachment_55229610" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Antonio Banderas on the red carpet at the Doha Tribeca Fim Festival 2011"][/caption] The Doha Film Institute (DFI) offers a…

Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes Victoria Clark Yale University Press 2010 Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes is the kind of book that keeps you awake at night. Its British author, Aden…

[caption id="attachment_55229554" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Anthony Shadid"][/caption] The veteran American reporter Anthony Shadid died on Thursday while on assignment in Syria for…

[caption id="attachment_55229322" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2012)"][/caption] How’s this for a trick question: which European actor received an…

[caption id="attachment_55229222" align="aligncenter" width="594" caption="Jabal al-Rahma (The Mount of Mercy) at Arafat, photo by Reem al Faisal"][/caption] Walking around the exhibition for the…

[caption id="attachment_55228931" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady"][/caption] No one walks quite like Margaret Thatcher. She scurries with her knees bent, the…

[caption id="attachment_55228839" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Muslim women in Cairo walk the streets"][/caption] Reporters are forever on the hunt for “real people” in their quest to…

[caption id="attachment_55228761" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Eve Arnold. 1912 - 2012"][/caption] The art world mourns an exceptional loss today as it is announced that world-renowned…