Through folklore, papier-maché and painting, artists and refugee children in Lebanon are creating an alternative Syria.

In the Hormozgan region in Iran, the burqe is a colourful, decorated face mask with roots in tradition and a life of its own today.

Hotel Atlas in the 50s. A band known as the Ramses Five play a cosmic fusion of oriental jazz; outside, a famous actress poses dramatically for her portrait.

The 2013 edition of Art Dubai exhibited a huge array of contemporary art – but, says Abraham Zeitoun, the aim of the fair is to sell Dubai to the world.

I think that art, even at its most effective, is a but promise. A utopian promise. When the revolution happened, utopia was there, flirting with the actual.

Ammar est un des personnages centraux de Génération Tahrir, un webdocumentaire consacré à la jeunesse égyptienne après la révolution.

Ammar is one of the central characters of Tahrir Generation, a web documentary which depicts the Egyptian youth after the revolution.

Far from any esthetic quest or artistic narcissism, multimedia artist Serhat Köksal has created an original way of to recycle Turkish cultural junk.

The Yellow Dogs, one of Iran’s main rock bands, now live in Williamsburg. New York may be a long way from Tehran, but the Iranian underground is everywhere.

First I just saw the old man sitting doing and nothing. Thinking. When I got closer, I saw that his small shop was full of carpets. “I’m an artist,” he said.