The Battle of Karbala was fought in the year AD 680 in what is now present-day Iraq. The incident came about after Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of the prophet Muhammad, refused to swear allegiance to ...

"This book is devoted to documenting the tremendous discursive energies of modern artists and critics who lived and worked in the Arabic-speaking regions of the Middle East and North ...

1985 poster designed by Marc Rudin and published by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) I admit to feeling crippled by the New Museum’s Here ...

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art is set to celebrate its 15th anniversary with two exhibitions this fall, aimed at fostering dialogue and expanding global understanding of Arab modern and ...

Christie’s is stepping up its efforts to cultivate the global market for modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art with a major exhibition of art from the Arab world taking over its London ...

This season’s Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art online sale, open for bidding from 21 October to 4 November, is led by a remarkable group of artworks from the Dalloul Collection, Beirut.

BOSTON - Arab art embraces many possibilities. “Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s,” an exhibition on view at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, explores those ...

Saliha Hanif and Asma Mehmood are artists of Pakistani origin, based in Dubai, represented by OneFourArt Gallery, a ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It might be hard to imagine that only a few decades ago the conventional history of modern art was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, but when I was in college in the 1990s the ...

This weekend offers the chance to experience beautiful art from around the world. In Dubai, an exhibition at Al Habtoor Palace puts the spotlight on Central Asian art, while Kutubna Cultural Centre ...