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"One day, the war will end and I will return to my poem"  from Kifah H. Alim Not sure who the artist is for this one

UCLA Prof Gil Hochberg's book, Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone , is out soon (May 2015) from Duke Univers...

This looks like a terrific book.   According to the publisher :  This book is a crowd-sourced and crowd-funded collaboration o...

I know very little about Syrian-Kurdish neo-expressionist painter Bahram Hajou, but I like this painting, called "Menschen," featu...

Dan Walsh, who runs the amazing Palestine Poster Project Archive, has very helpfully put together all the kufiya posters in the collection, ...

Ahmed Bassiouny, Tahrir Square, Feb. 28 Here is a fabulous website dedicated to Ahmed Basiony (Bassiouny), an incredible teacher, visual ar...

==Thirty Days of Running in Place, 2010 (interactive multimedia project)== Featured in the exhibition Why Not, Palace of Arts, Cairo, Januar...

Ayad Alkadhi is an Iraqi artist, one of many, many Arab and Muslim artists who have used Arabic calligraphy in their work, who has done som...

Check out the blog Ramallah Syndrome , and its very informative discussions of Ramallah, Palestine's de facto 'capital.' From Ja...

Earlier this month I met one of the producers of PBS' The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and as a result of that meeting, I decided to give ...

1. Facebook Egypt: The New York Times Sunday Magazine yesterday had a very interesting article about Facebook politics in Egypt, focusing...

I found this article (which appeared in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazettte on December 16) about the latest activity of Banksy and other artis...