Lebanon on the brink
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Political gridlock, economic torpor and the machinations of pro-Syrian Hizbollah - the non-state regional superpower - have once more pushed the crossroads of the Middle East to the edge of collapse
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Artists at war: inside PLO’s info department
The Palestinian Revolution was fought with posters and films as well as rocks and bullets. As a new exhibition opens, Nicholas Blincoe looks at the work of the PLO's information department
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Back to square one for Egypt’s media?
In the sprawling desert west of Cairo, a huge complex of studios for the Arab world’s largest media market beams content to NileSat, the Egyptian state-owned satellite provider. Despite the size of the market and all the strata of its consumers, not to mention the dynamism of uprisings that have unseated two presidents, the structure and nature of Egypt’s media landscape remains fairly unchanged compared to three years ago.
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