Amid the orchestral chaos of Cairo – incessant car horns layered with the lilting call to prayer – Mariem Akmal is creating in a sacred quiet. “I’ve always felt an intuitive pull to paint,” shares the artist, more popularly known online through her Instagram handle @groovyw0rm. “It’s been an outlet for navigating my emotions and […]
Ask Latifa Bint Saad what fashion is about, and she’ll tell you it’s about paying homage to the ways we move, remember, and imagine. The work of this Saudi stylist, creative director, and cultural researcher drifts between anthropology and aesthetics as she explores the politics, poetics, and personal rituals of dress in the Gulf. Each […]
For Syrian-Dutch artist and producer Yara Said, known professionally as Noise Diva, art was never really a choice. “It just happened out of necessity,” she says. “Art became the only way to process memory, exile, and the kind of chaos that words couldn’t hold.” And so, what began as a deeply personal documentation of a […]
