Desert, markets, colourful mosaic – the image of Morocco to many. But not Casa photographer Yoriyas Yassine Alaoui Ismaili. He sees very different things.

A striking flash fiction story about an Iraqi ice cream vendor working in Kuwait, written by Haitham Alsarraf.

A lively park stretches its well-tended lawns & small beaches along the Antolian seaside in Istanbul. Sedef Özge has photographed its life.

Art students, aficionados and the simply curious have been flocking to Ain Zebboudja every day, staying until late in the evening to paint the walls.

The series Towards a flora is Ali Taptık’s visual research into urban plant life, depicting lone potted plants scattered throughout Istanbul.

Small-scale shop facades in the UAE are essentially an extension of who the shop keepers are and can be considered windows into small eco-systems.

Vishnu Pasupathy walked through Dubai to document the opaque doors of older residential and suburban areas and tell their stories.

Beirut 2012. The city is one big construction site: familiar landmarks disappear overnight. Lara Tabet shot the development through the fences.

Al Khazzan Park on Safa Road in Dubai disappeared a while ago – but the tall water tower built in the 1980s remains.

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.