Imagined Spaces
Architecture is a façade of stability built on shifting foundations, an image of unity composed of borrowed parts. As the act of building, it precedes…
Dazed MENA issue 00
Inside the multimedia archive charting African sonic migration
In 1988, Steely & Clevie got into their Jamaica-based studio and made a beat for their song Fish Market. It’s got a syncopated drum on…
A love story told in gold
Originally published in Dazed MENA issue 00 | Order here Cartier’s LOVE collection is a cultural icon more than it is another jewellery range. Created in the 1970s as a symbol of…
Nothing is silly to Meriem Bennani
“It all started with a pair of flip-flops,” Moroccan visual artist Meriem Bennani explains. In her latest exhibition, For My Best Family, commissioned by the…
Against the grain: A fashion subculture in Afghanistan
With all the talk around the death of subcultures, the loss of real individual style, and fashion’s existential crisis as capitalism’s favourite child, we’re in…