Photographer Mohamad Al Roumi offers a peaceful alternative view of his home country

Nazi-era loot expert panel has no Jewish member and has mediated just 13 cases since 2003

Collectors, dealers and high-profile artists campaigned hard against tightening import and export rules

Paintings recovered by Monuments Men and entrusted to Bavaria were instead sold, in some cases to prominent Nazis

Warning that the world’s most stringent trade rules could see dealers moving abroad

V&A plans show on Iranian heritage and history while Berlin seals deal with Tehran museum

Auction houses in Berlin, Cologne and Munich offer a restituted Menzel, Brücke artists and a Richter

The 59 sculptures were among treasures seized by Stalin’s “Trophy Brigades” after the Second World War

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art collection to be shown in German capital from December

Monument of communist revolutionary was dug up for new permanent exhibition on statues of past political leaders

She replaces Hartwig Fischer, who took up his post as director of the British Museum this month

Munich Upper Regional Court sets hearing date for September, leaving collection in limbo for several more months

As Art Cologne opens today, some experts fear that forthcoming legislation protecting cultural assets could be nail in the coffin

Painting by Bartholomeus van der Helst once belonged to famous Schloss Collection coveted by Hitler and Göring

Exhibition aims to “contribute to transparency” as researchers investigate how much of the art was looted by the Nazis

“Jewel” in Wilhelm-Hack-Museum’s collection may go back to heir of Alfred Hess after settlement

Ronald Lauder says works sold by refugees to fund flight from Nazis should be treated the same as looted art<br>

Ten proposals have made it to the next round of architecture competition

Expressionist work confiscated for Third Reich’s ‘shaming exhibitions’ returns to Germany

162 works suspected to be Nazi loot, but just five have been identified as definite plunder