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Inside Iman Eldeeb’s mission to build Arab representation on the runway
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Should TikTok’s bukhoor boom make Middle Easterners feel uncomfortable?
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The BBL is dead, but we still aren’t free
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How Palestinian-led initiative Sa7ten is fostering Sumood
On a spring afternoon in Paris, Omar Radejko—chef, restaurateur, and founder of the grassroots Palestinian aid organisation Sa7ten—joins a video…
What Went Down: Audemars Piguet Celebrated 150 Years in London with RAYE and Mark Ronson
When you think of a watch brand celebrating a milestone, you might imagine a star-studded gala or a special-edition timepiece…
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In our region, a speaker isn’t just a speaker – it’s part of the culture. It’s what you pass around…
Nadah El Shazly leaves the metaphors behind on Laini Tani
From the moment Nadah El Shazly released her first full-length album, Ahwar (2017), she was positioned as one of the…
Xenia Nikolskaya’s latest photobook explores the sacred kitsch of Coptic iconography
In the baroque quietude of a Coptic church tucked away in Upper Egypt, a faded icon of the Virgin Mary…
Eltiqa brings two decades of Gaza’s art and resistance to Dubai
Amid bombardment and displacement, Gaza’s longest-running art collective, Eltiqa, continues to create, producing work shaped by survival, memory, and collective…
Navigating the Way Forward and Reconnecting with Syrian Creatives: Five Months After the Fall of Assad
“There’s still a long way to go until we reach our dream state for the region,” writes Syrian artist and…
Airtime is building a global cinema scene for people who actually feel things
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Opinion: When will MENA stop being a Cannes checkbox?
It’s that time of year again: Cannes is here. Denying the festival’s ability to spotlight a culture is difficult and…
Amara Abbas’s IMPULSE (جذبہ) captures the ethereal, beautiful, and quintessentially Pakistani essence of faith
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