Other cities, other seas

How to survive exile

Lady adventurers and the legacies of colonial history

Can art survive a civil war?

The spiritual and the secular in art today

The spectres of the culture wars

Prisoners of conscience and creative acts

On working as an artist in Beirut today

Artistic responses to the question of Palestine

One woman’s protest in Damascus

The donation of an art collection to the American University of Beirut has prompted plans to create two new galleries in Lebanon

What a show in New York says about artistic freedom in Lebanon

The problems of funding art during times of revolution

A pivotal moment for public performance in the Arab world – this is the first in a regular series of columns by Beirut-based writer Kaelen Wilson-Goldie