‘Your conscience is buried while mine is still alive … What shall I do today, Mr. Assaad Shaftari? I don’t want a statue, I want nothing, just a bone from my son …’

A conversation with renowned Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli about ‘Safar’, a major upcoming exhibition of contemporary Middle Eastern art in Canada

‘On that bright, sunny day in the middle of the sweltering month of Mordad, I saw the ends of your loose, red hejab fluttering gaily behind you …’

Joobin Bekhrad talks to acclaimed Saudi artist Manal Al Dowayan about the works in her retrospective exhibition at Jeddah’s Athr Gallery

‘… That lonely one turned his head to the vernal moon above, whispering softly, ‘My silent city – where art the soul of thine springs?’

A conversation with Mona Shomali and Haleh Jamali, two artists exploring female Iranian identity in a collaborative exhibition at the Asian Arts Initiative

Belgian-Moroccan director Kadija Leclere’s debut film, which examines the role of women in traditional Moroccan society

‘My family is here. I’m hanging here, torn between these two countries, these two realities. I belong to both these countries without being totally part of them’

‘Some people follow the masses. Others follow the sun’ – Annemarie Jacir’s bittersweet film about the Palestinian struggle, and one boy’s quest for freedom