Medina is an ever changing city, an odd blend of modern buildings and traditional architecture, described as “totally out of balance” by architect Sami Angawi.

“Egypt (mostly Cairo) beyond your Google image search results.” Picture Masr, through a stream of photos, gives another view of the North African country.

Mashallah News spoke to LAU professor Rula Diab about one of her specialities: the Lebanese language mix.

Champollion is a busy street in the middle of Cairo’s Wust el-Balad. The street is both residential and thriving with activity, lined as it is with car mechanics, workshops, sidewalk cafes and small shops. Champollion Street is also home to Cairo’s most famous koshary joint, Abu Tarek, and the formerly glorious palace-turned-boys’-school from 1896. As […]

Algerian director Sofia Djama’s film “Gently one Saturday morning” is a chronicle of a country in crisis. Mashallah spoke with her about cinema and change.

Chronique d’une Algérie en crise, Mollement un samedi matin est le premier court-métrage de la jeune réalisatrice Sofia Djama.

Monopoly, a short movie by Bader Al-Homoud. This one goes out to every citizen in Saudi Arabia sleeping under a roof that’s not her/his own.

C’est en plein automne qu’a fleuri douloureusement le premier «printemps arabe». En Octobre 1988 en Algérie. Il s’est terminé par des cris et du sang quelques années plus tard.

It was fall when the first Arab Spring painfully blossomed. It was fall when the first Arab Spring painfully blossomed. This was in Algeria, in October 1988, and ended with bloodshed a few years later. The October Riots was probably the most significant event since the country’s independence in 1962. To this day, no political […]

Five delicate, translucent and radiant Afghani burqas – a reflection on society and women’s clothing. A creative project by Lebanese-American Denise Maroney