Sarah Zakzouk’s review of Reel Words, an evening of Iraqi and British poetry in London commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the Iraq war

‘Karam’s figures are sublime, mentally, ideologically, and physically transcending the socio-historical pressures of Lebanon’

‘In this life I was stripped of my humanity, but I have retrieved what is more sublime, more noble, through my dreams’ – Halim Al Karim

Tara Aghdashloo’s take on the Middle Eastern art and attractions at this year’s edition of the Frieze Art Fair in London

A discussion with the organisers of a unique exhibition in Tehran which aimed to foster artistic dialogue between Iranian and British artists

Yasmin El Derby, Co-Founder and Director of the London MENA Film Festival talks to Joobin Bekhrad about the highly anticipated event