Habibi, come to TikTok: Culture for Clout
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…
Dazed MENA issue 00
The Desert writes back
Aseel AlYaqoub’s practice is a love letter to Kuwait: its history, its people, and most importantly, its land. Studying how this nation came to be,…
Algorithms and computational linguistics
Language is like an egg yolk. Just like the yolk; its shape-shifting nature is a direct result of its material conditions. Yolk is also the…
Histoire de l’Oeil: Dries Van Noten beauty through an avant-garde lens
Originally published in Dazed MENA issue 00 | Order here In a visionary editorial titled Histoire de l’Oeil — a nod to surrealist inspirations — DAZED collaborated with Dries Van Noten Beauty to showcase the brand’s bold lipsticks…
QASIMI’s homage to Palestine and Lebanon
In the face of injustice, metaphor, subtlety, and reading between the lines are futile. Understanding this fundamentally, the Emirati label QASIMI has made blatancy a…