Enduring years of trauma and suffering, young Palestinians find a curative sanctuary in art and articulate dreams through their creations.

Ali Omar est un peintre kurde syrien installé à Istanbul depuis 2014, dans ses portraits multicolores où le fond et la forme dialoguent avec subtilité.

Ali Omar is a Syrian-Kurdish painter who lives in Istanbul since 2014. He draws the same portrait again and again, in an infinite number of variations.

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.

The Beirut exhibit “Nine Shades of Black” featured sculptures, photos and paintings by nine exhibiting artists from Syria, Lebanon, the US and Switzerland.

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

Dizhayners, armed with rainbowcoloured paint and brushes, have set out to beautify Beirut’s crumbling and half-hidden stairs

Iranian avantgarde painter Farbod Morshedzadeh talks about his art and the silver lining to the grey cloud of his childhood

A group of Egyptian artists and activists launched the “no walls” project to transform the walls around Mohamed Mahmud into murals to record the revolution.

A piercing evocation of the civil war, The Butcher is a painting by Houssam Bokeili that shows a butcher shop in which human bodies have replaced dead meat.