Topic: Art

Osman Kavala (photo: Kerem Uzel/dpa/picture-alliance)

Turkish activist Osman Kavala

"We have a strong political opposition"

Lebanese stand-up comedian Shaden Fakih during her stage show in Beirut at the end of February 2022 (image: https://www.facebook.com/Shadyonshka)

Freedom of speech in Lebanon

Jail? Don't make me laugh!

Curator Linda Komaroff discusses the work "Be Colorful #2" by Iran-born artist Shadi Ghadirian at the press preview for the exhibition "Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond" (image: AFP/Robyn Beck)

"Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond"

LA art exhibition on Middle East women opens

"Girl in a Cemetery" (detail) by Raoof Haghighi c/o A Gallery, London, UK

Art and the Iran protests

"Painting is like breathing for me"

Udo Steinbach at an event in Cafe Shabander on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad (image: private)

Udo Steinbach on Europe and the Gulf

Let's have none of the old arrogance

Online portal "Islamic Art", homepage, (source: National Museums in Berlin, Museum of Islamic Art)

Berlin Museum of Islamic Art

"Islamic Art” goes digital

Baghdad Reading Festival on the Tigris (image: Birgit Svensson)

Iraq's art and literature scene

Culture boom in Baghdad

Still from Sarvnaz Alambeigi's documentary "1001 Nights Apart" (source: YouTube)

"1001 Nights Apart"

Dancing for freedom in Iran

Naomi Campbell at the opening of Virgil Abloh's exhibition "Figures of Speech", Doha, Qatar, 4 November 2021 (photo: Craig Barritt/Getty Images)

Qatar

How Qatar turns its cash into foreign policy power

Sufi shrine to Mustafa Devati in Istanbul (photo: Marian Brehmer)

God's love for all

Sufism is not just Muslim

 Two of the four steel slabs of US artist Richard Serra's "East-West/West-East" installation in the Qatari desert (photo: Mustafa ABUMUNES AFP)

Richard Serra sculpture in Qatar desert

4WD pilgrimage to acclaimed installation

Arab women mobilise: the superheroine Qahera frees political prisoners, much to the displeasure of those in power (photo: Deena Mohamed)

Cartoonists in the Arab world

Children of the revolution

Hagia Sophia: a monument spanning two world religions, Christianity and Islam (photo: Getty Images)

No Europe without Islam

"Europe's history is rooted in migration"

Spectacular light show at the Soundstorm Festival in Saudi Arabia (photo: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images)

Sex life in Saudi Arabia

Lifting the veil

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