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Road song

Visual Sunday

Culture Yerevan

Tigran Hamasyan, one of Armenia’s most acclaimed jazz pianists, brought to the screens in the dreamlike music video “Road Song.”

Wires and cables

Visual Sunday

SocietyUrban change Beirut

Vintage photos of when electricity was brought to the Beqaa in eastern Lebanon, discovered in a pile at Beirut’s flea market Souk al Ahad.

The smell of death

Rights & dissentSociety Tripoli LB

Looking out from inside of the Al-Salam Mosque in Tripoli when hit by one of two explosions that killed 45 and wounded over 500.

Abdulsalam Alamri: Saudi snapshots

Visual Sunday

Society Riyadh

Abdulsalam Alamri, a resident of Riyadh, invites us to see a whole other side of life in the capital and other cities in his Saudi Arabia.

Go local, support local

Visual Sunday

Society Amman

Go Local, Support Local — a cute and green grassroots campaign to consume homegrown Jordanian produce.

Internet delicacies

Recommended food blogs and websites

CultureSociety Aleppo Beirut Benghazi Damascus Izmir Mashallah region Tehran Tripoli Yerevan

Delicious, tasty, cute and culinary Middle Eastern food blogs and websites enjoyed by Mashallah News, licking our fingers.

Neon calligraphy

Culture Riyadh

Yusef Alahmad, a Saudi-born designer and illustrator based in San Francisco, discusses his love for typography and calligraphy.

A Trojan cow

Pixelated Intifada

Culture Bethlehem

A Palestinian artist pays homage to the cows that helped the residents of Beit Sahour defy the Israeli occupation during the first Intifada.

The peacocks & the Tuareg

Culture Mashallah region

A Berlin-based DJ and artist found inspiration in the Saharan desert, recording a mix influenced by musical encounters with Morocco’s Tuareg communities.

Translation of an open letter to Erdoğan

From "A Revolutionary Muslim"

Rights & dissent Istanbul

On Sunday June 2nd, the anti-capitalist Islamic group “Revolutionary Muslims” [Devrimci Müslümanlar] posted this open letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “Revolutionary Muslims” were among the first groups to occupy Gezi Park in protest against its destruction.