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 […]
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 […]
The Male Nude at the Wallace Collection has a slightly more sensational title than it warrants. With its hint of role reversal – today’s spectator is used to the female nude […]
Pearls, V&A and Qatar Museums Authority Exhibition, 21 September 2013 – 19 January 2014 Pearls, on exhibition currently at the Victoria and Albert Museum, elegantly reveals the long historical allure of these […]
The London Magazine The current ‘Hajj’ exhibition at the British Museum has been praised by Brian Sewell as ‘an exhibition of profound cultural importance’ and criticized by Mehdi Hasan as […]