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Lost amid the azure depths of 1,500 years of Arabic prose? Don't know al-Qais from Darwish? Then start here

May God be kind on Abu Nuwas, who wrote the following verse in one of his most renowned poems: "You are astonished by my Illness?... It is my health that should astonish you!" It came to mind as it had become clear to me that the so-called "Mar Mikhael Agreement," which was signed in Mar Mikhael church located in the Chiyyah neighborhood in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, was coming to an end.

In 2013, after years trying to get permission from layer upon layer of authorities in India to put up an outdoor light work, artist Shilpa Gupta final

In hauntingly spare artworks, Shilpa Gupta grapples with questions of censorship, born from her own experiences with authoritarian limits.

Alcohol and Islam are generally considered to be mutually exclusive, but people do drink in the Muslim world. Alfred Hackensberger says that, even though most Muslims consider alcohol to be something negative, there's another tradition dating from a more tolerant period