“For birds’ sake” is a photo book by Cemre Yesil and Maria Sturm about Istanbul birdmen. More than a hobby, the bird lovers speak of an addiction.

Farshid Tighehsaz’s photo essay documents the environmental tragedy of the disappearing Lake Urmia in Iranian Azerbaijan.

There are very few footpaths in Palestine. Most old walkways have become roads for cars, widened savagely by bulldozers running over the olive groves.

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

Daoud Nassar, a Palestinian farmer and owner of an organic farm located on the hills southwest of Bethlehem, had all his fruit trees destroyed by the Israeli Defense Force.

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

Cairo and the city’s endless city chairs – and their presidents.

Iranian photographer Hamed Masoumi’s series “Fields of loneliness” from July 2010 captures serenity and vast stillness.

Our day-by-day account of the Occupy Gezi protests.

The occupation began with a few dozen people protesting the demolition of trees in Gezi Park by a private company at 2 AM. That morning, the bulldozers came back and tried to continue demolishing the patch of land on the far edge of the park.