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Inside the world of Coperni
With the flurry of February’s Paris Fashion Week, creative directorial shakeups, tectonic shifts across legacy houses, and the usual race…
Emergency Room unveils ‘Golden (R)age’: A Lebanese legacy reimagined
Emergency Room unveils its captivating new collection, “Golden (R)age.” This series intricately threads the tale of a young adult with…
Uniform
For all the incarnations of jeans today, a few things define the enduring character of a classic denim pair: twill…
But the Turkish delight makeup trend is…beautiful?
The Turkish Delight makeup trend exploded across TikTok, with beauty influencers meticulously breaking down its signature look: soft, blurred lips…
SimiHaze Beauty: Building innovation from necessity
Simi and Haze Khadra, the Palestinian DJ duo, have been making waves in the fashion and beauty world for years.…
Histoire de l’Oeil: Dries Van Noten beauty through an avant-garde lens
Originally published in Dazed MENA issue 00 | Order here In a visionary editorial titled Histoire de l’Oeil — a nod to surrealist inspirations — DAZED collaborated with Dries Van Noten…
Freedom by design: reclaiming Amazigh symbology
“We need to reconnect with our heritage outside of colonial biases,” she says. “Our symbology and mosaic will endure, but…
Getting faded for Eid: a glimpse into one Cairo’s busiest barbershops on Eid night
Walk down any street in the lesser gentrified and modernity-seeking streets of Cairo during the first days of the Eid…
From Cairo’s backseat: Ramadan through our Cabbies’ eyes
There’s a timeworn Egyptian saying that courses through the very marrow of this city—our blood runs like water, and no…
KUKII releases debut EP ‘RARE BABY’, a reintroduction of sound and self
RARE BABY is the electrifying debut EP from KUKII, an artist whose journey through identity, sound, and culture has been…
BODUR is the artist reviving an ancient Arabic musical system
Reclaiming orientalised representations with her debut album MAQAM, London-born artist BODUR and director Furmaan Ahmed go head-to-head on the themes…
Playback: Breaking down Biji’s music videos
Dazed MENA is thrilled to launch our new video series, Playback, with a spotlight on our very own cover stars,…
An ode to Safeya Binzagr
While living in Cairo with her family, Safeya Binzagr would wait in anticipation for her older sister Soraya’s visits. She…
Islamic maximalism: spirituality in design as a voice against the aesthetic design hegemony of minimalism
In an aesthetic landscape where “less is more” has become the prevailing design philosophy, I ironically did not feel all…
Beyond Sight & Surface: Yasaman Sheri and Gab Bois in conversation
Yasaman Sheri and Gab Bois bend reality in different ways. The former, a LA-based researcher and designer, explores the intersection…
Fake it like you mean it
Bootlegging—cheap knock-offs, copyright infringement, bad taste. The term drips with disdain, a shorthand for inauthenticity in a world obsessed with…
The next generation of actors taking over our Ramadan screens
Whether it’s the yellow and red lights shimmering among the swaying date palms and olive trees, the shop windows bursting…
Opinion: ‘No Other Land’ is a devastating film – but is that why it won an Oscar?
As Yuval Abraham, co-director of the now Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, took to the stage at the Dolby Theatre…
What went down at the Dazed MENA 100 Launch Party
If you’re reading this, you probably don’t need to be told that the first-ever Dazed MENA 100 list was released earlier this…
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Levi’s and Denim Tears Create Pieces That Carry Stories
Few pieces of clothing carry as much cultural weight as denim. Worn in protest and in celebration, faded by time or dyed with intention, a…
How four teenagers smuggled the first electric guitar into Jerusalem
“We were walking outside the old city walls of Jerusalem, right between Herod’s Gate and Damascus Gate,” Hagop Kaplanian recalls exactly — one step at…
Hanumankind ‘Runs it Up’ at Coachella: Behind the scenes of an iconic US debut
It’s less than one month before Coachella, and rapper Hanumankind, real name Sooraj Cherukat, is fully immersed in preparation mode. “It’s wild to think that…
This self-published zine is a punk-fueled homecoming
There’s a song Maha Eljak wrote with her dad. One line loops again and again: Ana raji’a al beit – I’m coming home. That sense…
The Frankie Shop launch pop-up in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi is welcoming a major name in contemporary fashion as The Frankie Shop launches its highly anticipated MENA debut with an exclusive pop-up at…
The Global Art Forum 2025 is here to decode ‘The New New Normal’
At a time when navigating the ceaseless depths of Instagram’s Explore page feels like a bad fever dream and reality seems too far-fetched for even…
When Richard Mille meets Ferrari, time goes turbocharged
Some of the most exciting things in design happen when two creative forces decide to join up. Richard Mille knows…