The curtain may have fallen on the final performance, but Home Works IV has left a few glowing embers glittering in its wake. Scattered around the city, a clutch of venues continues to exhibit shows cut from the Home Works

Palestine has been near the top of London's cultural agenda for two weeks running. Last week, the London Book Fair highlighted the Arab world, holding seminars by several well-known Palestinian writers and poets. Friday evening, Barbican Cinemas hosted the opening

The concern of Emiratis about being a minority in their own country surfaced again last week, with a senior official warning that it could lead to the collapse of the regime. "I'm afraid we are building towers but losing the

By Griff Witte Soon after war unexpectedly broke out on the border between Israel and Lebanon in the summer of 2006, Yariv Mozer, then a 28-year-old Israeli reservist, was called up to the front. With him, he took his rifle