A concert performance at London’s Royal Opera House is a timely showcase of the Middle East’s gifted artists. Last Friday, London saw the launch of Shubbak, a two-week cultural extravaganza showcasing contemporary […]
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A film that reminds us exactly why Bush, Blair, and others in their administrations should stand trial. Tony Blair’s not entirely unexpected resignation from his job as Middle East peace […]
The pope and the European Parliament recently urged the Turkish government to recognise the Armenian mass killings as “genocide”, while others – including the US – have stopped short of […]
Review: The Dream of Shahrazad and The Wanted 18 offer two wildly different but inspired insights into the region. Only one of them really succeds, however. There were two documentary […]
ISIL’s iconoclasm is really about violent conquest, in which peoples and civilisations are threatened with extinction. The video of the destruction of Assyrian antiquities in the Mosul Museum by Islamic […]
The Third Space, an exhibition of work by displaced Syrian artists at the British Council in London, runs until 18 February 2015. In December 2013, the British Council offered 78 […]
In 1862, over half a century before the fall of the Ottoman Empire and before the British and French carved up the Middle East, the then Prince of Wales went […]
Lebanon’s personal status and citizenship laws are sexist and create more statelessness. Though it likes to think of itself as the most liberated Arab country, Lebanon needs to admit that […]
The latest diplomatic spat has seen the Turkish prime minister accuse his Israeli counterpart of crimes against humanity, while Israel’s foreign minister called the Turkish president an “anti-Semitic bully”. Ahmet […]