Museums outside the Middle East are looking towards the region ...

The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art throws open its doors in May. The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art is scheduled to open in New York in May. Courtesy IAIA/ Lilli Rose. Sarah Cascone March 7, ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 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) ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...