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Drawings by the Sudanese artist will be shown in full for the first time in Istanbul this month charting an arc from hope to violence
Curators, art historians and museum directors sought by the US Army to provide expert advice in combat zones
Last month’s conference at the Institut du Monde Arabe acquired special meaning after Charlie Hebdo
Modern art targeted as the originals go missing
Thirty international archaeology teams have been invited to the desert land.
Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders say they must be involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
Museum closes a cultural gulf
Nations are taking contrasting approaches to the region’s continuing political and social chaos
From Macedonia to Mali, the culture of the Islamic world is in an ideological and territorial struggle
Biennial embraces divergent ways of seeing the world, despite growing censorship in the Gulf
Tony Blair will not feature heavily in this exhibition - rather, those whose lives were shaped and destroyed by the conflict
It’s a Late Stone Age horse, of course?
The space aims to celebrate cultural diversity in the Middle East
Artists have used the walls of Cairo, Damascus and Tripoli to document the uprisings
Zahi Hawass faces major challenges over looting
While one may not be familiar with some of the book's more niche digressions, Eigner's dexterity in referencing the ancient past never fails to impress
While the Russians are branching out, Indian collectors don't stray far from home
Both have set up acquisition committees concentrating on the region
The Turkish capital has curators, collectors and galleries—if the government pitches in, it could become the leading destination for contemporary art in the Middle and Near East
As the Middle East increasingly becomes a producer and consumer of contemporary art, the role of the West as 'tastemaker' grows progressively more troubling
Market worries conspicuously absent at Art Dubai
The unwelcome truth
Ghaleb Majadle has been a member of Israel’s Knesset since 2004.
The State Department wants to promote programmes in the Muslim world
Focus on Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman
Sales in Dubai almost doubled expectations, and the majority of buyers were new (just don’t mention the Tel Aviv saleroom)
As The British Museum prepares to loan the Cyrus Cylinder to Iran, The Art Newspaper remembers the Persian antiquity's first visit to its home nation in 1971
The artist uses kitchen utensils and household objects to charge domestic settings with danger
Mount of contention
Computer-generated reconstructions relate Islamic architecture to other key monuments