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