A plea for the poetic inspiration and vision needed to counter despair, complacency, repression and extremism.
An account of the drastic identity and narrative shifts during the Syrian uprising. The author focuses on the discourse of the Syrian regime, as well as those of anti- and pro-Assad Syrians.
Art is being used as a medium for gentrification, as the middle class displaces that of the working class in poorer urban areas. While the superficiality of this movement is apparent, should the good name of art suffer as a result?
Arab Awakening's Mazen Zoabi peeks into the realities of life as a Middle Eastern woman. A review of two fascinating films screened at the HRW Film Festival.
A new major exhibition of the man who was England's greatest sculpture ignores, yet borrows from, the controversial re-assessment on the 1980s that Moore was the artist of a labour movement at once mighty but defeated and will be seen as the most awesome witness of human carnage of the First World
