“Photography is my first immune weapon against amnesia and the tough situation,” says self-taught photographer Obaid Allah from Yarmouk in Syria.

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

I have never felt as alienated to a man’s body as in the oil wrestling arena.

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.

Youth have no space to express themselves in Somalia/Somaliland, says photographer and artist Mustafa Saeed. So he created one, in neon and black and white.

“I haven’t been taught by anyone, I did it by myself. I started first by doing tattoos on my own body.” George Mikalides is a self-taught tattoo artist.

“For birds’ sake” is a photo book by Cemre Yesil and Maria Sturm about Istanbul birdmen. More than a hobby, the bird lovers speak of an addiction.

Samar Hazboun’s latest project, “Beyond checkpoints,” documents the often forgotten stories of Palestinian women who have given birth at Israeli checkpoints

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…