Sinan Goknur, a graduate student in the Literature Department at Duke University, addresses queer and feminist opposition in Turkey as part of the roundtable — “If I Can’t Dance, It’s Not My Revolution.”

by MIRIAM COOKE, ERDAĞ GÖKNAR, CLAUDIA KOONZ, BRUCE LAWRENCE, and WALTER MIGNOLO for ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN on APRIL 23, 2014: This revolution is a beginn

The short-term impact of street art during the Arab Spring is clear: it helped proliferate revolutionary messages on public consciousness against oppressive regimes by utilizing a medium that was hard to censor: walls and buildings.

Syrian-American pianist, composer and human rights activist Malek Jandali, who grew up in the now war-ravaged city of Homs, performed a benefit concert thursday night at Duke to help the suffering children in Syria.

Syrian-American composer, pianist, and human rights activist Malek Jandali will perform a benefit concert to help the suffering children of Syria. It's the opener for the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies Conference "Arts of Revolution."

Syrian-American composer, pianist, and human rights activist Malek Jandali will perform a benefit concert to help the suffering children of Syria. It's the opener for the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies Conference "Arts of Revolution."

Video tour produced by Julie Poucher Harbin, editor, ISLAMiCommentary and staff at the John Hope Franklin Center.

Duke welcomed Swedish photo journalist Mia Gröndahl to campus for a series of both classroom and public talks about her work documenting graffiti art.