From the Chouf with love

Mountain food

09.05.11 Beirut

Walid and Maysoon Nasreddine from Kfarkatra in the Chouf mountains dry tomatoes on the roof and pick herbs in the woods.

Improve your Amharic

A new task force for migrant workers

20.04.11 Beirut

The newly established Migrant Workers Task Force runs every Sunday language classes both for and by migrant workers in Lebanon.

Through a window in Ramallah

17.04.11 Ramallah

Crouched in a corner of a small make-shift shelter, during the Israeli attack on Ramallah, Palestinian poet Tala Abu Rahmeh started writing poetry.

من نافذتي في رام الله

17.04.11 Ramallah

كانت الشابة الفلسطينية تالا أبو رحمة جالسة في زاوية ملجأ في أثناء عملية إسرائيلية التي شهدتها رام الله. و بدأت تالا كتابة الشعر للمرة الأولى.

Organic randomness

Visual Sunday

20.03.11 Beirut

Karen Klink is a Barcelona-based Lebanese artist whose radiant and bright illustrations, situated somewhere between the childlike and the paranormal, transfers you to wonderland.

Off the walls

Visual Sunday

13.03.11 Beirut

There is something about city walls. Occasionally, bits of urban life gets glued or nailed to these walls, or carved into them or written on their surface.

The word ‘revolution’

Back on everyone's tongue

02.03.11 Cairo

“Support the revolution”. Tagged on walls and printed on posters both in and outside Egypt, the phrase was coined by visual artist Mohamed Gaber.

Art in the making

20.02.11 Dubai

In Dubai’s industrial area, warehouses and empty buildings now house a growing number of galleries and art spaces. Jam Jar in Al Quoz lets you create your own paintings.

The cats are alright

And they rule AUB campus

09.02.11 Beirut

In Beirut, they’re famous. A few hundred occupy the campus of AUB, a prime piece of land, and they know well how to mark their turf. Meet the AUB cats.

Namasté Dubai

02.02.11 Dubai

On a small street inside old Dubai’s market area, just off the main throughfare, is a small India outside of the subcontinent.