Enter the khala

Kushti in Dubai

27.09.12

On an open, dusty field nearby Dubai’s fish market, the age-old Indian/Pakistani kushti wrestling gathers crowds of spectators every week.

De quoi rêvent les martyrs ?

24.09.12

Tunis

Je pense que l’art, même dans sa formation la plus effective, reste une promesse à venir, une promesse utopique. Mais à ce moment là, l’utopie était là, elle flirtait avec l’actuel, l’art et la politique étaient devancées par le présent.

Portraying the martyrs

24.09.12

Tunis

I think that art, even at its most effective, is a but promise. A utopian promise. When the revolution happened, utopia was there, flirting with the actual.

Along the road in the Bekaa

15.09.12

Beirut

Syrian families, all ages working in the fields growing tobacco, potatoes and vegetables, living on the roadsides of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley

A small group of Syrians

22.07.12

Damascus

Photographer Jaber al-Azmeh takes on one of the Syrian Government’s most prominent symbols, the Ba’ath newspaper; turns it upside down and covers it with messages

Picture yourself Egypt

17.07.12

Cairo

“Egypt (mostly Cairo) beyond your Google image search results.” Picture Masr, through a stream of photos, gives another view of the North African country.

In the mix

Linguistic mélange bi Lubnan

13.06.12

Beirut

Mashallah News spoke to LAU professor Rula Diab about one of her specialities: the Lebanese language mix.

Faten Hamama

Egyptian legend

23.05.12

Doha

Egypt’s Faten Hamama, one of Arab cinema’s great legends and known the 50s & 60s as ‘The Lady of the Arabic Screen’, is still recording movies.

Khartoon!

Sudanese satire

21.05.12

Doha Khartoum

Khartoon, the brainchild of Qatar-based Sudanese cartoonist and graphic designer Khalid Albaih, satirises everything, especially politics in the two Sudans.

Writing Libya

Changemakers

28.04.12

Tripoli

Libya today has hundreds of new media. One of them is Libya Times a youth-run magazine that carries stories from different parts of the country.