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Scarlett Johansson Steps Down as Oxfam Ambassador

By Nate Rawlings

To My Father, Ariel Sharon

By Gilad Sharon

Iranian Censorship as Art: Portraits of Absence by Phillip Toledano

By Eugene Reznik

Shifting Sands: Surreal Landscapes of the United Arab Emirates

By Sophie Butcher
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Pictures of the Week: March 15 - March 22

From Obama's first Presidential visit to Israel and the Pope's inauguration to a series of suicide bombings in Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia and the colorful Lathmar Holi festival in India, TIME presents the best images of the week.

By Phil Bicker

LIFE in the Middle East: Power and Petroleum in the Gulf in 1945

On the 75th anniversary of oil being discovered in Saudi Arabia, LIFE.com republishes a 1945 photo essay that in LIFE magazine's words was "the first complete look at this fabulous and troublesome part of the world."

By Liz Ronk

2012: A Year of Strange Landscapes

TIME looks back on the byproducts of man's folly and nature's fury in a gallery of the year's strange and surreal landscapes.

By Phil Bicker

Light from the Middle East

A new show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London offers a peek at refreshing photographic work by the artists and photographers of the Middle East.

By Kharunya Paramaguru

The End of al-Qaeda? On Patrol in Yemen by Yuri Kozyrev

TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev and editor-at-large Bobby Ghosh traveled to southern Abyan province in Yemen for this week's cover story in TIME International. Here, Ghosh recounts their travels with a Yemeni Central Security Force (CSF) patrol through territory plagued by al-Qaeda.

By Bobby Ghosh

How Tehran Shut Itself Down to Work Better

To improve security and traffic during the Non-Aligned Movement conference, the Iranian capital gave itself a five-day holiday and kept its residents off the streets

By Yara Elmjouie

Suffering and Resilience: The Hospitals of Aleppo

Photographer Nicole Tung documents Aleppo's overburdened hospitals and the continued casualties of the ongoing Syrian civil war.

By Nicole Tung

Land of Stories and Myths: Yaakov Israel Photographs His Homeland

Photographer Yaakov Israel set out to document the people and landscapes of the country that shares his name. His new book tells a story of daily life in a land with a deep history and uncertain future.

By Ishaan Tharoor

The Great Chicken Run of Iran: Why Poultry Makes Tehran Anxious

One of the effects of international sanctions on Iran has been to drive up prices in the country's domestic poultry industry. For a nation which loves its chicken, the situation has caused quite a flutter

By Yara Elmjouie

Taxicab Confidential — Tehran-Style: Who Is Iran’s Next Political Star?

The mayor of Tehran usually runs for President, and next year may see the current office holder do just that. Why cabbies love him

By Yara Elmjouie

'Middle East Oil': The First Major Magazine Article, Anywhere

Page layouts from the earliest feature any publication anywhere ever published on the Middle East's fraught and lucrative petroleum industry.

By Liz Ronk

TIME Looks Back at The Best Photos... of Photos from 2011

A look into a collection of news photos of photos, where blissful instants are lost among a sea of uncertainty, and moments from the past are frozen in the present, stark in the contrast between then and now.

By TIME Photo Department

Theater of War: Photographs by Christopher Morris

TIME photographer Christopher Morris documents what Libyan government minders have orchestrated, and beyond, capturing the subtleties of a closely watched society at war with itself.

By Christopher Morris

Egypt In Flux: Photographs by Thomas Dworzak

Photographer Thomas Dworzak, on assignment for TIME, captures post-revolutionary Cairo, Egypt.

By TIME Photo Department

The Uprising: Reflections on the Egyptian Revolution by Dominic Nahr

A look back at Dominic Nahr's assignment in Egypt in photographs and sound.

By TIME Photo Department

Gaddafi's Libya: Photographs by Christopher Morris

Christopher Morris explores Gaddafi's Libya, photographing the devout and the manufactured

By Christopher Morris
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