2025 has been decreed the year of headwear by fashion insiders, and we are all worse for it. The trend has swept through the fashionable on Instagram like the plague; I’ve seen more pictures of white women in knitted balaclavas in the past two months than I have hijabs at my local mosque. From notable […]
“I didn’t know and nobody told me, and what could I do or say anyway?” It’s haunting how much the opening lines of June Jordan’s 1982 poem Apologies to All the People in Lebanon read as if it were written today. “They told you to leave, didn’t they?” she sarcastically asks the slaughtered Palestinian and […]
On 19 January last year, Grammy-winning artist Rosalía set the internet abuzz as she vibed to as she vibed to the infectious beat of Basbousa at Louis Vuitton Men’s Autumn/Winter 2023 fashion show in Paris. This unexpected cultural moment sent Arabs across the globe into a frenzy, watching in awe as clips from the show […]
