In the Hormozgan region in Iran, the burqe is a colourful, decorated face mask with roots in tradition and a life of its own today.

Durant des siècles, les conversions et les persécutions ont décimé les Samaritains. La communauté existe toujours, perchée sur le Mont Gerizim à Naplouse.

The Samaritan people played a key role not only in ancient Palestinian history but also in today’s culture. They now live in two surviving communities: Nablus and Holon in Israel.

Sophie Chamas discusses the recent spate of bombings that have targeted Beirut and reflects on Omar Shatah’s moving response to his father’s assassination.

Mashallah News spoke to Alex Shams about the lesser-known positive effect of the 1979 Iranian revolution on women’s education and university enrolment.

Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema is a collaborative initiative between various marginalised and migrant communities to organise free screenings of short films made with cell phones using a rickshaw-powered projector.

It was the ongoing revolutionary phase in Egypt that inspired ENCODE to start working with patterns from traditional Islam. The design studio and research lab in Alexandria is developing new ways to present traditional Islamic patterns using mathematics and digital tools.

MAMNOU3! – “forbidden” in Arabic – is also the title of a Lebanese web-series about the day-to-day inner workings of the country’s Censorship Bureau

Leave it to the Lebanese to hold up a cliché with pride. So many of us exploit the memory of a painful civil war to sensationalise ourselves.

What is Lebanon; what does it mean to be Lebanese? The things linked together to form the web of identity through which to perceive the homeland