In the Hormozgan region in Iran, the burqe is a colourful, decorated face mask with roots in tradition and a life of its own today.

During the last decade, Ramadan in Dubai has become more & more commercialised. Still, in parts of the city, communal outdoors iftars bring people together.

Mashallah News spoke to Alex Shams about the lesser-known positive effect of the 1979 Iranian revolution on women’s education and university enrolment.

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.

It was the ongoing revolutionary phase in Egypt that inspired ENCODE to start working with patterns from traditional Islam. The design studio and research lab in Alexandria is developing new ways to present traditional Islamic patterns using mathematics and digital tools.

Amishka experiments with stencil art and graphic design, borrowing from Saudi and Arab pop culture to examine contemporary society with subtlety and humour.

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

Mecca may be sacred, but that doesn’t stop it from transforming. Towering in the city center today is, among others, a clock tower larger than Big Ben.

A beautiful letter to imprisoned 23 year-old Saudi journalist Hamza Kashghari, arrested after having tweeted about Prophet Mohammad.

Three Istanbul artists on how to survive in a city that continues to expand at breakneck pace.