Samar Hazboun’s latest project, “Beyond checkpoints,” documents the often forgotten stories of Palestinian women who have given birth at Israeli checkpoints

“The Girl Who Lost Her Imagination” is a new book for kids that aims at making the Arabic language accessible to bilingual children.

War & toys are hardly the best companions, yet toyshops are full with rifles & soldiers. War-Toys uses them to recreates kids’ memories from conflict zones.

A guitar, a sea of fish, birds flying from the barrel of a gun. All in fluorescent pink, painted by Iraqi photographer Jamal Penjweny.

We went to buy paper and crayons, went over to the Kilis 1 UN camp, and asked kids to draw images of their country. They all drew moments of war.

The first of six fictional short stories from our inaugural fiction series. This piece is on the ashwa’iyet (unauthorized shanty dwellings) of Egypt.

Turkish photographer Cihad Caner shot polaroids in and around Aleppo: with his neon-scribbled photos he wants to portray those who remain

“A Woman Sings Under the Ice”, a short film by Tehran-based animator and illustrator Maryam Khalilzade, marries poetry and fantasy.

“Detained: Confessions of Palestinian children Imprisoned by Israel”, documents children’s stories and aims to lend a voice to those silenced by fear.

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.”