Arts

'Artists must pick a side': How Israel's assault on Gaza is shifting the culture on Broadway

Despite a growing insistence on Palestinian rights in the theatre industry, Palestinian performers remain without a seat at the table

Sliman Mansour, a pioneer of contemporary Palestinian art, dies aged 79

My father made Palestinian theatre an act of resistance

Alaa Tartir

Venice Biennale targeted by strike action and protests over Israel's involvement

Israel's genocide in Gaza

The Route Back Home: How Gaza's children use art to express the nightmares of genocide

Venice Biennale artists demand Israel's exclusion from renowned festival

The voice and the rifle: How Umm Kulthum became a target of the Mossad

Majd Asadi

Israel's genocide in Gaza

We Are Still Here: What it feels like to live through Gaza's genocide

In the Shadow of the Martyr: Why art in Palestine is resistance

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

Researchers fear UK sale of artefacts could include items looted from Yemen

How Palestine became a global cause of humanity

Hamid Dabashi

Crude eye: Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri on oil, war and Japanese manga