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In 2005 Nissim Ben-Sheetrit, then head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said that Israel sees “culture as a propaganda tool of the first rank, and I do not differentiate between propaganda and culture.”...

Hadi Damien, the founder of Beirut Pride, was arrested by Lebanese security forces at a theater reading on May 15. Held overnight by authorities, Damien was forced to sign a pledge to discontinue the...

On Wednesday, May 16, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi continued a Ramadan tradition of granting presidential pardons en masse, freeing 330 prisoners, including youth activists and individuals...

On March 9, 2018, the National Art Dealers’ Alliance annual Artadia Award went to a young Emirati artist known for her high-saturation photographs of peculiarities from her homeland: a falcon here, a man...

May 15, 2018 marked seventy years since the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe”), when over 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in Palestine by Zionist-turned-Israeli forces. During...