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Arts & Culture articles covering the Middle East region
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- Rashid Karami International Fairground
- The Chehabi Citadel
- Something old, something new
- Iran reveals seldom-seen hoard of Western art
- 'Le Grand Voyage,' a poignant pilgrimage
- Palestinian filmmaker shows refugees' agony of waiting
- Archeologists write history at Sidon excavation site
- Uzbekistan-born teenager becomes first Muslim Miss England
- 'In the Battlefields': Wars, girls and growing older
- 'Bhar Aswad' takes audience through emotional twister
- Mina Agossi sexes up the stage at Liban Jazz
- Gadhafi sons stealing the party scene at Venice film festival
- Sampling Lebanon's growing wine industry
- No fusion, no standards - just thundering free jazz
- And Zouk Mikhael sang praise to the Lord
- Hamas album of victory songs about Israeli pullout sells like hot cakes in Gaza
- 'Three Cities Against The Wall' connects artists across borders
- 'Rainbow' injects new energy into old medium
- Women to bike for peace across Middle East
- Camel fetches $185,000 at auction in United Arab Emirates
- The day rap music came to the Gaza Strip
- Jordanian arts foundation unveils a new facade and a new acquisition
- Bianca Jagger seeks to kindle U.S.-Iran dialogue
- Toppling walls of race and gender, Iraq's Hadid builds for the future
- Laguava - an oasis of peace and calm in Lebanon
- Hello Beirut, with love from five artists in Cairo
- Somewhere in Nowherestan the world's a better place
- First Arab on Everest now first Arab on Cho Oyo
- Iraq's first post-Saddam film is metaphor for Kurdistan's 'rape'
- Veil of secrecy lifts on Morocco's palatial plundering
- 'No Visa Required' brings Mideast movies to U.S.
- 'White Ravens': speaking through the silence
- A kinder, gentler 'Season of Migration to the North'
- On Lebanese hip-hop scene Omarz takes point with brand of powerful rap
- Aiwa! Artists head for higher ground
- Reviving oriental souks with German expertise
- Ancient Persia comes alive in British exhibition
- Nuclear tunes blast on to Iran's airwaves
- Tiesto feels the love in Beirut
- Poetry, memory and the smell of coffee in Madrid
- The 'fading poetry' of old Lebanese architecture
- Egypt's Culture Ministry plagued by bickering
- 'Married To Another Man' - a writer's search for Palestine
- Young Egyptian photographer Youssef Nabil turns his lens on himself
- Jean de La Fontaine's 'Fables' enchants Beirut audience
- Prince Claus Awards honor two Middle Eastern artists
- Nazar - Stories in pictures from the Arab world
- Ahmad al-Khatib brings Palestine to the Medina
- Iraq war critic wins Nobel Prize for Literature
- Madina Theater offers up an iftar of oriental music
- Thinking outside the box to become something, anything new
- To believe or not to believe
- Saudi Arabia to allow public screening of cartoons
- Defiant Turkish writer says 'genocide' taboo an obstacle to EU entry
- Pamuk wins Germany's highest literary honor while new Asterix adventure criticizes Bush
- Ormuz Festival fails to hit the spot
- 'Sidon: City of Arts' a new focal
- Tackling postwar amnesia and erasure as cultural production, "Massaker" makes aesthetic choices with political implications
- Confronting demons to banish them like Sabra and Shatilla, "Massaker" is a political creature and should be handled as such
- Cultural sensitivities surface in choosing 'approproiate' children's toys
- Artist Nada Eido delves into an imaginary desert
- Turkish author says political engagement part of being writer
- Screen star Omar Sharif sued over alleged parking punch-up
- Eat, drink, discover and take long walks - a beginner's guide to Beirut
- Banksy bombs the wall
- Reworking 'The Simpsons' for the Arab world
- Divers unveil exquisite Islamic treasures pulled from depths of Java Sea
- Goha - a wise fool with many names
- Silence is death - Censorship in the Arab world
- 'The Blue Rider' - a romantic and rather spiritual view of art
- The quick and easy way to pamper yourself in Lebanon's capital
- London Film Festival showcases strong Middle Eastern films
- Khoury-Ghata digs up her past in 'A House at the Edge of Tears'
- Docudays film festival at UNESCO Palace features 57 films from 31 countries
- You can't hurry Phil Collins
- 'Putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth'
- Travel guide for businessmen makes connections in Beirut
- Marya Kazoun and the suffering of humanity
- Political overtones and images of horror
- The world tunes in to Lebanon
- Singapore's historic Arab Street offers trendy yet oriental hang-out
- BIEL's annual Beirut book exhibition tickles your French taste buds
- Bidding farewell to a 'Lion of the Desert'
- Cultural forum marks third anniversary of Zawaya magazine
- Saving the story of Afghanistan
- Using stereotypes to shatter them
- Gallic guitars, violins and lashings of accordion
- Official guidebook offers cheap, but cursory view of Lebanon
- Bidding for a wider audience
- Don't call it a comeback
- On matters of size and scale
- Taking a visual tour through the labyrinth of spiralling psychosis
- An unorthodox portrayal of the body
- Walls of Jerusalem's Old City in danger of collapse
- Funding the arts in the Middle East
- Iran cracks down on cinema, theater and newspapers considered to be un-Islamic
- Taking shots at Egyptian taboos
- Malas bags Jury Prize at Marrakech film festival
- Arab-American comics combat ignorance with caustic humor
- Aghapy TV brings teachings of Coptic Church into homes of followers

