This January, a group of artists have been coming together to generate strategies for a counterattack: one that points creativity to a social purpose and that fights fire with artistic expression. 

The International Artists Gathering in Fez, Morocco, brings together artists, curators and historians to ask whether art, be it Islamic calligraphy or experimental photography, can aid the region at a time when most of its challenges evoke policy or military responses.
 

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