Thirty international archaeology teams have been invited to the desert land.

Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders say they must be involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

Museum closes a cultural gulf

Biennial embraces divergent ways of seeing the world, despite growing censorship in the Gulf

Tony Blair will not feature heavily in this exhibition - rather, those whose lives were shaped and destroyed by the conflict

It’s a Late Stone Age horse, of course?

The space aims to celebrate cultural diversity in the Middle East

While one may not be familiar with some of the book's more niche digressions, Eigner's dexterity in referencing the ancient past never fails to impress

While the Russians are branching out, Indian collectors don't stray far from home

Both have set up acquisition committees concentrating on the region

The Turkish capital has curators, collectors and galleries⁠—if the government pitches in, it could become the leading destination for contemporary art in the Middle and Near East

As the Middle East increasingly becomes a producer and consumer of contemporary art, the role of the West as 'tastemaker' grows progressively more troubling

Market worries conspicuously absent at Art Dubai

The unwelcome truth

Ghaleb Majadle has been a member of Israel’s Knesset since 2004.

The State Department wants to promote programmes in the Muslim world

Focus on Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman

Sales in Dubai almost doubled expectations, and the majority of buyers were new (just don’t mention the Tel Aviv saleroom)

As The British Museum prepares to loan the Cyrus Cylinder to Iran, The Art Newspaper remembers the Persian antiquity's first visit to its home nation in 1971

The artist uses kitchen utensils and household objects to charge domestic settings with danger

Mount of contention

Computer-generated reconstructions relate Islamic architecture to other key monuments

Follows disappearance of jewels, manuscripts