If the artists known as 'Young British Artists' had left the UK to work in the Middle East, and adopted local art practices, it's unlikely we'd be interpreting their 'Britishness' in the same way as we have been doing. And so maybe the Middle Eastern artists here, most of whom seem to live in (or constantly jet about) the West, and whose style is the geographically indifferent one called 'contemporary art', aren't quite the 'Young Middle Eastern Artists' that Baghdad-born Charles Saatchi seems to want us to believe.
Despite international calls for a ceasefire, Israel’s campaign against Hamas has intensified
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Tue 6 Jan, AT 00:00
Patrick Tyler provides a misguided excuse for America’s ongoing role in the catastrophe that is the Middle East, says Charles Glass
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Sun 4 Jan, AT 00:00
The promise to bring all their soldiers home hampers Israeli war tactics and makes the invasion of Gaza a huge political risk
The extraordinary story of how Israel offered 180 Palestinian fighters sanctuary in the civil war that is tearing Gaza City apart
Bulldozer driver kills two on the streets of Jerusalem as he ploughs into cars and bus
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