Two Greek statues were returned to their homeland last month after a Qatari museum refused to exhibit their naked forms. Apparently women aren’t the only ones who need burkas, now.
Author of the groundbreaking 2008 graphic novel “Metro," illustrator Magdy El Shafee was arrested on Friday in Cairo and now sits in Tora Prison. A campaign to free him has just begun.
Palestinian hip hop group DAM made a powerful video clip against honor killings. Yet, two distinguished Arab scholars dismissed it as “orientalist cliché”. Why the rappers are right, and the “intellectuals”, wrong.
From Casablanca to Dubai, young Arabs have made parodies of the one-billion-views-on-Youtube Korean video "Gangnam Style". Some offer sharp political satire, other wittily tackle societal topics… and all of then are creative and hilarious! Check out Free Arabs’ round-up.
"Create is resist, resist is create"—by Art solution, a collective that keeps Tunisia alive.
