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Moroccan graffiti

Thami Benkirane's fascinating world

Culture Fes

Thami Benkirane’s photos are pieces of visual art, with layered colours and moments from everyday Moroccan life.

Moroccan graffiti

Mirages argentiques

Culture Fes

Thami Benkirane est né en 1954 à Fès, ville où il est professeur d’université. Il nous parle ici de son travail et de sa série Moroccan graffiti.

In the beginning there was the word

Creating peace

Rights & dissent Jerusalem Ramallah

This photo series by Spanish photographer Dani Lagartofernández gathers portraits of 13 women working actively to attain peace in Palestine and Israel.

Shake the dust

Culture Sanaa

Although separated by cultural boundaries and individual struggles, breakdancers are tied to one another through their passion for breakdance and hip-hop.

Istanbul is on fire

Documenting urban transformation

Urban change Istanbul

Yaşar Adanalı gives an insight on the socially unfair urban transformation taking place in Istanbul. Three videos from Fatih Pınar illustrate the phenomena.

FF Amman

Font in the city

Culture Amman

FF Amman – a new font in use by several municipal services in the Jordanian capital.

Papergirl: the art of giving art

Visual Sunday

Culture Istanbul

The Papergirl project aims at performing street art in new and innovative ways. After expanding in several countries, It just reached Istanbul.

فسحة أمل جديدة في القاهرة القديمة

Society Cairo

.التقطت هذه الصور الفوتوغرافية في حي عين الصيرة، وهو عبارة عن حي فقير أنشئ في الستينات في منطقة القاهرة التاريخية، أو مصر القديمة

New hope in Old Cairo

Society Cairo

These photographs were taken in Ein El Sira, a poor neighbourhood built in the 1960s in Cairo’s historic area Masr el-Qadima.

Meet Ahlam

Amman

Her name means “dreams” in Arabic, but the other women in Amman’s Gaza camp for Palestinian refugees are more likely to describe her life as a nightmare.