El Nadeem Centre provides treatment to victims of political violence and torture. Mashallah News met with psychiatrist Mona Hamed to discuss the nature of the psychological trauma engendered by political violence.

L’Algérie, cette année, a eu 50 ans, et Lamine Ammar-Khodja fait le pari de raconter cette date historique sous forme de chroniques filmées à la première personne

This year, Algeria turned 50. Algerian filmmaker Lamine Ammar-Khodja aims at telling this historical moment through a series of first-person chronicles.

In the morning of June 11, 21 refugees from Sudan began a hunger strike. They have received the same message – that their refugee status is under consideration – but nothing has happened for years.

في صباح الاثنين 11 يونيو/حزيران، قرر أحد وعشرون لاجئاَ سودانياَ في بيروت البدء بإضراب مفتوح عن الطعام

يوم الجمعة في مدينة دبي هو كرنفال الكريكت، إذ يخرج العمّال الهنود، الباكستانيّون والبنغال إلى الشوارع، الأسواق، والساحات ليُمارسوا بعضاً من الراحة بعد اسبوع شاق

The people of South Asia have fallen in love with cricket; they have embraced it up to a point where it’s part of themselves – their features, their hands and their culture. And those Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who have left their countries searching for a new place to live, have taken their sport with […]

MAMNOU3! – “forbidden” in Arabic – is also the title of a Lebanese web-series about the day-to-day inner workings of the country’s Censorship Bureau

Photographer Jaber al-Azmeh takes on one of the Syrian Government’s most prominent symbols, the Ba’ath newspaper; turns it upside down and covers it with messages

Leave it to the Lebanese to hold up a cliché with pride. So many of us exploit the memory of a painful civil war to sensationalise ourselves.