Cities in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE share a common emerging culture: counter-narratives graffitied on their buildings and walls.

The walls of Dubai, usually void of any message that’s not commercial, have become the canvas of a new street artist questioning the city’s mode of living.

Etudiants en art, passionnés de peinture ou curieux se retrouvent à Ain Zebboudja, tous les jours depuis plusieurs mois, jusque tard dans la nuit, pour peindre sur les murs.

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.

911, F-16, 666. Numbers that seem to signify danger, alarm, war. In a Saudi Arabian coding system, they are graffiti tags representing tribes and regions.

Did you see a stencilled camel on a wall recently? If you live in Saudi Arabia, or elsewhere in the world, you might have come upon the 300 camels project.

Our favourite Instagram photographers from the Middle East — discover Sudan, Saudi, Dubai, Palestine, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and elsewhere through them

In Istanbul’s Gezi Park where things, no matter what it looks like, have not gone back to “normal”.

A Berlin-based DJ and artist found inspiration in the Saharan desert, recording a mix influenced by musical encounters with Morocco’s Tuareg communities.

In Bahrain, powerful graffiti reminds of past and current struggles, and more resistance to come.