Adam Henein’s museum in the Giza village of Harraniya sits like a relic in its own right. Now, it is tucked away behind a canal running parallel to a main road where, a mere few decades ago, the property’s yard merged into fields that stretched toward the pyramids in a hazy distance. It is not […]
Originally published in Dazed MENA Issue 01 | Order Here With their seemingly unflattering chemical base notes — woody with the faintest trace of citrus — Comme des Garçons perfumes are not easy to love. They’re jarring and uncomfortable—a deliberate break from the norm. We’re not invited to fantasise about a dream world nor an […]
Flags are everywhere, yet unlike traditional images, they always signal a certain set of shared beliefs and values about nation-states, national identity, and political ideologies. For Roland Barthes, flags are an example of a myth, socially constructed narratives that assert a certain picture of the world. By changing the context, one can change the effects […]
