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Unavailable and unsanitary 10.11.21 — Habib Battah

Beirut

A sign at the entrance of Kamed El Loz refugee camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley promises to solve water issues but residents say they have been abandoned.

The red gold of Tabarka 02.11.21 — Myriam Amri Tunis

In northern Tunisia, seaside Tabarka has played a central role in coral fishing and cross-Mediterranean trade since at least the 15th century. Today, red coral continues to be traded across the sea, despite reef degradation and the informal workings of coral trade networks.

Neo-Ottoman cruise 30.10.21 — Kaya Genç Tripoli LB

In 2010, with great fanfare, Turkey inaugurated a ferry route between Mersin and Lebanon’s Tripoli, a first between the two countries. It was hailed as an important milestone in Turkey’s strategy of renewed engagement with former Ottoman territories. The latter failed but the ferry line managed to survive.

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The Mediterranean is more than a water body. Its shores and inhabitants are interlinked by centuries of exchange.
What happens to the mind and soul when we move places? In times of global immobility and isolation, what does the word migration mean beyond movement?
ماذا يحدث للعقل والروح عندما ننتقل من مكان إلى آخر؟ وفي زمن الجمود والعزلة حول العالم، ما الذي قد تعنيه كلمة الهجرة خارج حدود الحركة والتنقل؟
A neighbour, a person living by our side. We may differ in manners and ideas of how things should be done, but we will always stay closely connected.
More than a tool for reflecting what is, language is also a means of producing the real. It also has subversive potential – the ability to speak new kinds of selves, communities and solidarities into being, to resurrect mute narratives and resuscitate those that are running out of breath.

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Birqash camel market 27.05.12 — Brady NG

Cairo

A photo essay of a Friday spent at the well known Birqash camel market in Egypt.

The gentlemen of Kuştepe 07.05.13 — Mashallah Team

Istanbul

Visit the homes of the people of Kuştepe – urban residents whose lives are rarely seen – in this portrayal of a neighborhood under threat.

One in four 20.06.14 — Mashallah Team

Beirut

On this year’s World Refugee Day, we are sharing photos by Oliver Tooke who documented the situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

Tarlabaşı: the dusk 14.04.13 — Svetlana Eremina

Istanbul

Tarlabaşı has long been a neighbourhood where Turkey’s most marginalised communities live. Close to the prosperous heart of the city, the area represents the world of ‘the other’.

Family portraits 08.05.11 — Hassan Darsi

Casablanca

Hassan Darsi shot his first family portrait for this series in 2000, in one of Casablanca’s suburbs. Then, he traveled to several countries to complete it.

“We are not dead yet” 05.08.16 — Larissa Araz

Istanbul Yerevan

Places carry memory. 100 years later, photographer Larissa Araz documented Kamp Armen and Terchoonian Home Orphanage, two homes for orphans of the Armenian genocide.

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