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

Follows disappearance of jewels, manuscripts