A few nights ago in Riyadh, gaming stepped out of the digital and into the room. When Dazed MENA and American Eagle brought Gather to Game to the city, the result was a live collision of fashion, fandom and online culture — built as much around its headline names as its installations. At the centre […]
For her latest solo exhibition, Sole Crushing, Moroccan artist Meriem Bennani orchestrates a radical reimagining of protest, procession, and public intimacy through the most ordinary of objects. The building itself becomes a resonating chamber, filled not with voices or instruments, but with over two hundred rubber sandals—striking, slapping, tapping in choreographed rebellion. “I had this […]
Some books arrive quietly but leave a lasting resonance. Mahmoud Khattab’s The Dog Sat Where We Parted is such a work, an unflinching yet poetic meditation on solitude, masculinity, and the inner landscape of military service in Egypt, where every able-bodied male with brothers is obliged to serve in the country’s military apparatus. Self-published outside […]
