Iranian photojournalist Kaveh Rostamkhani photographed what he refers to as Iran’s “Islamic Public”: Islamic Shiite culture, central in the Iranian society.

Tucked into a stone house in Shaalan, Etana Books is a hybrid space, part lending library, part bookstore, part café, and, above all, “spirits gathering.”

Joumana Haddad performed a marketing coup with her book ‘I killed Scheherazade’. But is it bold, or merely bling-bling feminism à la Sex and the City?

Bahadir est un jeune homme de 20 ans, étudiant et gay. De sa ville natale de Mersin aux nuits folles de Taksim, sa vie s’est transformée du tout au tout.

Bahadir is a young 20 years old Turkish student, and he is also gay. From Mersin to crazy nights out in Istanbul, Bahadir’s life has made a 180 turn.

Like so many other places across the world, Saudi society is becoming increasingly consumerist and dedicated to shopping.

This documentary shows how parts of Istanbul will be lost with the new urban reshaping policies. It is also to raise awareness and mobilise against it.

لقد شكل “قانون التحول الحضري 5366″، بداية لإعادة هندسة مدينة إسطنبول على نطاق واسع. وقد أدت السياسات الإقتصادية الجديدة التي وُضعت إلى تغيرات سريعة في أحياء المدينة

Mashallah is publishing articles on the topic of migration, covering a few aspects of this phenomena. Today: the emergence of a new language in Beirut.

J’ai rencontré Taher, un réfugié soudanais de 18 ans, en février 2009. J’ai alors transmis à Taher un appareil photo jetable, pour documenter son quotidien.