Iran is a country where 70 percent of the population are under 30. That means 70 percent of the population don't know what the revolution was

Former Israeli soldiers who have testified against army abuses have for the first time given up their anonymity, to make their voices all the harder to ignore.

“Alf Neela we Neela” is a new sarcastic book by Egyptian writer Mohamed Hassan that makes fun of political and social problems using the narrative techniques of 1001 Nights.

The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Disappearances Convention) will enter into force on 23 December, after Iraq on Wednesday became the 20th country to ratify it.

Nowadays, when Palestinian activists in their twenties and thirties meet up with veterans of the Palestinian struggle, they show an unexpected thoughtfulness towards the older, revolutionary generation, to which I belong.

Banned books — on sex, politics, religion — are a specialty at Sami Abu Hossein's shop in Amman.

Ali Samadi Ahadi's dramatised documentary The Green Wave retells the drama of the 2009 presidential elections in Iran, unintentionally revealing the weaknesses of the opposition against the hardliners around Ahmadinejad and Khamenei.

As the film is shown around the world - in New York and London as well as Israel, the West Bank and Gaza - it is being held up as a positive case-study of how non-violent solutions to conflict can yield results.

Marzieh, Iran's most renowned female singer, passed away on Wednesday.

A year after representing a united Israel at the Eurovision song contest with her Jewish partner, Palestinian singer and actress Mira Awad is still being asked to pick sides

There are no cinemas in Baghdad anymore

Mr Zeidabadi is known for an open letter he wrote from prison in 2000 protesting the judiciary’s treatment of imprisoned journalists

The activist's Palestinian protest movement is the focus of a new documentary film

In reading A Journey, one should not look for explosive revelations regarding major policy issues. No prime minister would spill the beans so soon after leaving office. One should not look for intimations of a personal kind either. After all, Tony Blair, his belated conversion to Catholicism notwithstanding, is no Saint Augustine.

It's rare in Egypt's pop culture to get a direct and frank look inside the minds of Egyptian women and what they really think of marriage and love. So a TV comedy became a startling voice in this conservative society's debate over the changing role of women.

Taybeh beer festival attracts thousands of Palestinians and Israelis, as well as revellers from as far afield as US and Japan

Azar Nafisi tells of her struggles with both mother and country

Woman imprisoned in Iran's political web

Can one be gay and a pious Muslim at the same time?

That's the topic that Indian Muslim film director Parvez Sharma explores in his controversial 2007 documentary "A Jihad for Love"