Dateless Tombs Arose

Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose
Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose,

Pyramid of Menkaure, Al Ahram, Giza, Egypt

And shook within their pyramids to hear
A new Cambyses thundering in their ear…

From Lord Byron’s The Age of Bronze (1823)

The Arab Spring

Events in the Arab world are being covered by the Western media more extensively than ever before and are being talked about positively in a fashion that is unprecedented.

FRONTLINE: A Year of Journalism and Conflict, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, Westminster, WC2R

Before, when anything Muslim or Middle Eastern or Arab was reported on, it was almost always with a heavy negative connotation.

FRONTLINE: A Year of Journalism and Conflict, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, Westminster, WC2R

Now, during this Arab spring, this has ceased to be the case.

FRONTLINE: A Year of Journalism and Conflict, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, Westminster, WC2R

An area that was a byword for political stagnation is witnessing a rapid transformation that has caught the attention of the world.

FRONTLINE: A Year of Journalism and Conflict, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, Westminster, WC2R

Rashid Khalidi’s The Arab Spring, The Nation (2011)