The sale this week of a Moroccan sunset painting by Winston Churchill for $11.5 million calls to question how the British prime minister imagined the Middle East and North Africa.
Churchill’s "Tower of Koutoubia Mosque," which was sold by the actor Angelina Jolie at Christie’s auction house, depicts a sunset over Marrakech, which the British prime minister visited with Franklin D. Roosevelt after the Casablanca Conference in 1943. Roosevelt later received the painting as a memento o
ALBAWABA - French authorities announced the arrest of two men suspected of being part of the gang, who stole precious jewellery from the Louvre museum last week. One of the ...