Arts

Seven Pavilions of Love: London exhibition celebrates Nizami and the Persian miniature

On display at the Aga Khan Centre until 1 December, artist Farkhondeh Ahmadzadeh celebrates a Persian epic using a traditional Iranian painting style

Israel's war on Gaza

How Palestinian art fights erasure

Brigitte Herremans

Rachel Corrie and Gaza brought back to the London stage

‘It will never be home’: Artist Sandra Watfa on Palestine, genocide and growing up in England

Israel's war on Gaza

Barbican's cancellation of LRB talk exposes 'huge rift' over Israel-Gaza

'Shut up and fall in line': Israel, Palestine and the dawn of a new censorship in western art

Israel's war on Gaza

More than 2,000 artists accuse governments of aiding Israel's 'war crimes'

The Falklands war and the legacy of British imperialism

Ahmed D Dardir

Palestine Writes: First of its kind literature festival in US exceeds expectations amid threats

The cassette tape's cultural and political impact in the Middle East

Rumi: Why show about the Sufi mystic could be Turkish television's next Ertugrul

In pictures: The Egyptian who finds solace in the art of Arabic calligraphy

Egypt: Dutch archaeologists banned over 'falsifying history' in new exhibition

In pictures: Depictions of Cleopatra through the ages

Why celebrated artist Baya is much more than Algeria's Picasso

Hannah Bouattia

A bittersweet remembrance of Cairo’s dream for a British audience

Ahmed D Dardir

'We need to push back at art from the West': The Gulf as a cultural hub

Stories of Palestine: Humanity in the face of an unjust world

Hisham Bustani

Hamline University case shows a failure to appreciate the diversity of Islam

Hamid Dabashi

A guide to the seven styles of Arabic calligraphy