In Bahrain, powerful graffiti reminds of past and current struggles, and more resistance to come.

Amishka experiments with stencil art and graphic design, borrowing from Saudi and Arab pop culture to examine contemporary society with subtlety and humour.

Discover this selection of photos from Jerusalem-based photographer Tanya Habjouqa’s series “Women of Gaza”.

Tala Abu Rahmeh’s beautiful poem on Palestine. “I do not want broken record poems about rubble, so I touch my empty belly. I don’t want my children
to grow up here.”

Welcome to the land of waiting. People here are born waiting. Waiting to return to a homeland lost, and, from the looks of it, in the most desperate moments, lost forever.

Perché, au cœur des montagnes, entouré de nombreuses colonies, le petit village est bercé d’une intenable pression permanente. Pour être sûr d’y accéder il a fallu grimper sur le flanc de la colline. Le checkpoint nous aurait interdit de rentrer. Hier les soldats sont venus briser la porte d’une maison alors vide pour monter sur […]

Lebanon is now hosting more than 100,000 Syrian refugees. But one group has sadly been forgotten: Syria’s Palestinians.

Today is Friday and there is a protest in the streets. The point is to show the soldiers that people – men, children, women – live here.

Sarcastic, irreverent, The Slap, by Iranian director Ehsan Amani, uses codes from silent film to make fun of its characters and our preconceptions.

Istanbul artists enjoy analysing trends in urban transformation. Since Turkey’s $400 billion urban transformation project began on October 5, with the demolition of 3,900 buildings at 75 locations in 35 cities using explosives and bulldozers, the word “transformation” has come to sit at the heart of artistic debates.