Bringing back life to Iraqi-Jewish cuisine during one evening in Dubai at culinary artist Michael Rakowitz’s pop-up restaurant.

Many Egyptian cultural initiatives thrived in the euphoric energy settling in downtown Cairo since the revolution. Art is rising from the streets.

Istanbul artists enjoy analysing trends in urban transformation. Since Turkey’s $400 billion urban transformation project began on October 5, with the demolition of 3,900 buildings at 75 locations in 35 cities using explosives and bulldozers, the word “transformation” has come to sit at the heart of artistic debates.

“If the older generation could hear just one song on the radio, maybe they would love rap.” Hear Yemeni AJ Hajaj about the future of rap in Yemen.

Investigating Lebanon’s attitude towards trash, through a play about a 5 metres high pile of discarded metals, plastics & wood, covered in heaps of trash.

Although separated by cultural boundaries and individual struggles, breakdancers are tied to one another through their passion for breakdance and hip-hop.

There are different ways of living a city. You can eat your way through it, speak to its people, walk its streets or lay down in its parks. Or – parkour it.

Now is the time to fight, shout, curse, play, run and jump on stage: independent venues are taking the theatre scene in Istanbul.

Diyarbakır, the biggest Kurdish city in southeastern Turkey, is more famous for its excellent folk dancers than its b-boys. But they exist also.

There are several informal art spaces all around the country. Mashallah talks about three: Zico House, the Sanayeh residence, and the Batroun Art Proposal.