Rachida Ouar’s photographs invite people in Algiers to discover the city’s rich architectural heritage, from Phoenician, Roman and Ottoman to French-influenced and contemporary.

Mizrahim, Jews descending from the Arab world, remain outsiders in Israel, in a subordinate place in society and neglected in representations of Jewishness.

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

A guitar, a sea of fish, birds flying from the barrel of a gun. All in fluorescent pink, painted by Iraqi photographer Jamal Penjweny.

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

IraQueer – a new online home for the LGBTQ+ community of Iraq and Kurdistan

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

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

Visit Lebanon’s overgrown rail tracks, once connecting Beirut to Haifa in the south, Damascus in the east and Aleppo in the north.

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