When I first met Koray, on Burgaz island, with a coffee in his hand & a cigarette between his lips, he was grooming the horses slowly & gently.

The Egyptian youth: the spark of the revolution, famous or anonymous, disappeared from the screens. I keep finding faces that are no more — or are slowly fading away…

This monthly mix features some familiar friends alongside new faces. Soft, danceable tunes to get you through these heavy days of late summer.

This month’s mix goes heavy! 47 Soul brings melody to the resistance, Moseqar hangs with Biggie and Om Kalthoum.

Ankara’s mayor Melih Gökçek built five new city gates on different highways, boosting aesthetics of Seljuk and Ottoman architecture. A sign of megalomania?

For our second themed series, Mashallah in collaboration with our friends from Knooz Room are looking for stories from across the Middle East on the topic of night.

Gabriel Luis Manga baked Mashallah Mix #4. Still navigating between downtempo, electronica and hip hop, featuring DJs and musicians from the Middle East.

In this introduction to our recently published anthology Beirut Re-Collected, Mashallah News co-editor Jenny Gustafsson recalls an encounter with the residents of Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

I remember clearly the moment we stood facing each other — I, wondering if he was Iranian, and he, probably thinking that I was Iraqi.

One of six fictional short stories, published as part of our inaugural fiction series, that share an interest in the ‘fate’ of the Middle East.