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Gezi Park Occupation

Liveblog

Rights & dissentUrban change Ankara Istanbul Izmir

For eight days and nights, Mashallah News covered the uprising in Istanbul and other Turkish cities, highlighting the huge diversity of the Gezi movement.

Land day graphics

Rights & dissent Ramallah

Yesterday was not only the birthday of MC Hammer & Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, but also Land Day – a day to commemorate what happened in Palestine 1976.

Back at the Atlas hotel

Culture Beirut

Hotel Atlas in the 50s. A band known as the Ramses Five play a cosmic fusion of oriental jazz; outside, a famous actress poses dramatically for her portrait.

Zamaaan

Your passport to the past

CultureSociety Abu Dhabi Amman Beirut Damascus Istanbul Manama Mashallah region

Founded by the chronically nostalgic Fatima Mussa, Zamaaan is a visual, curated and crowd-sourced archive that sets out to trace the secret history of the Middle East.

The gentlemen of Kuştepe

SocietyUrban change Istanbul

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

فندق الأطلس

Beirut

كنت قد سمعت الكثير وأنا أكبُر في لبنان في فترة ما بعد الحرب، عن مدينة كانت قد بُنيت قبل أن أولد بوقت طويل واسمها بيروت.

The Atlas Hotel

Culture Beirut

Growing up in post-war Lebanon, I often heard about a city that existed long before I was born, known as Beirut. Through visuals, I am now recreating what it was in the 1950s and 1960s.

Zeroth Street

Culture Beirut

Come visit Lebanese artist Mariam Yakan who lives on Zeroth Street, somewhere between her beloved “Lebonia” & temporary home in the “Metallic World.”

Time of Mubarak

Rights & dissentSociety Cairo

Photographer Laura El-Tantawy began documenting the everyday life of Egyptians before the revolution: now, she continues portraying the post-Mubarak era.

Final fitting

Visual Sunday

Society Qom

Final filling follows Mr Arabpour, the master tailor and craftsman, and the owner of the most famous tailor shop in Qom.