A list with some of our favourite storytellers/sharers and initiatives from across the UAE. Enjoy!

Calligraffiti meets age-old Palestinian embroidery art.

Cities in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE share a common emerging culture: counter-narratives graffitied on their buildings and walls.

“What is the real message being promoted during the holy month?” This question got Khalid Mezaina to devote illustrations to the essence of Ramadan.

Models in saris, kurtas, Raybans and glitzy dresses inhabit shop windows in Dubai and Oman – but why pale and with Western features?

The walls of Dubai, usually void of any message that’s not commercial, have become the canvas of a new street artist questioning the city’s mode of living.

During the last decade, Ramadan in Dubai has become more & more commercialised. Still, in parts of the city, communal outdoors iftars bring people together.

Ziad and Abdul are two of many Emirati nationals being asked to sign up, reluctantly, for national service. Already thousands of young men had been drafted.

Vishnu Pasupathy documents architectural styles from the formative years of the UAE, and how they influenced the visual fabric of Dubai and other cities.

Sukoon, an online literary journal in English, launched in in 2013, managed to create a virtual literary salon for poets, writers and readers.