"This book is devoted to documenting the tremendous discursive energies of modern artists and critics who lived and worked in the Arabic-speaking regions of the Middle East and North ...

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, “Postcards of War” from “Wonder Beirut” series (1997) (all images courtesy Mori Art Museum unless otherwise noted) Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab ...

The middle of the 20th century was a tumultuous time for the 22 countries of the Arab world. It was a period of decolonization and industrialization, of war and mass-migration. It saw the rise of ...

1985 poster designed by Marc Rudin and published by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) I admit to feeling crippled by the New Museum’s Here ...

The tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar is often overshadowed by its neighbors. But the country is gaining its own reputation -- as a player in the art world. Qatar is on an ambitious construction ...

DEARBORN, Mich. — Nabil Mousa’s first solo art exhibition was a joyous occasion, but it still brought tears to his eyes when he introduced his husband to the audience. Mousa was born in Syria and ...

After eight years of renovations, the Islamic galleries at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art have finally reopened. The 15 rooms of the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, ...

Faraz Khan is promoting his upcoming course at Rutgers University on Facebook. The ability to read and write Arabic is not a prerequisite for Introduction to the History and Practice of Arabic ...

The Battle of Karbala was fought in the year AD 680 in what is now present-day Iraq. The incident came about after Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of the prophet Muhammad, refused to swear allegiance to ...

Edward McDonald-Toone is affiliated with the Labour Party, and has received Funding from the University of Melbourne (in the form of a 3 year scholarship for graduate study in the UK, awarded in 2010) ...