Soon after moving in to his new flat, Hedi, a Tunisian man, discovers a red button hidden behind the frame of the picture. This changes everything.

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.

إن محطة الحاج في المنصورية تشكل إحدى المواقع التي لا تحصى ولا تعد في بلدنا حيث تتبلور عملية السلطة وتظهر جليةً من خلال “الأعمال الصغيرة أو الثانوية التافهة” التي يقوم بها أفراد قد لا نلاحظهم أو قد يمرون مرور الكرام في حياتنا اليومية.

The Hajj Petrol Station in Mansourieh is one of the countless areas of our landscape in which power invades and permeates all areas of our daily lives.

A small section of the wealth of colourful Palestine-themed Arabic typography and calligraphy posters from Ramallah’s Manara Studio

It is the king of all the elevators that I know. A warrior, a poet, a resistant. Despite being in such a bad shape, it keeps delivering its job tirelessly.

Sulukule’de yaşananları, hem yıkımı, hem yıkımdan geriye kalan hikayeleri, hem de sonrasında yapılan gönüllü çalışmaları hafızalarda taze tutmak önemli.

After the demolishion of Sulukule, a neighbourhood in Istanbul, volunteers tried to fill the void through, among other things, play music with the kids.

A year after the end of the war/revolution, the walls of Libya have exploded with street art – from Benghazi to Tripoli and in between.

Istanbul’s Pilot Gallery is currently exhibiting a different kind of portraits. It is the work of Pakistani artist Hamra Abbas, born in Kuwait and currently splitting her time between Boston and Islamabad, who uses play-doh to comment on society.