We hope to eliminate a stereotypical perception of Arab women, replacing it with stories of smart and creative artists who have important world views to share.

Deepak Unnikrishnan’s debut novel Temporary People chronicles stories of life-worlds shaped by change, temporality and migration, well familiar to the people of today’s Gulf cities.

Calligraffiti meets age-old Palestinian embroidery art.

Cities in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE share a common emerging culture: counter-narratives graffitied on their buildings and walls.

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

Ziad and Abdul are two of many Emirati nationals being asked to sign up, reluctantly, for national service. Already thousands of young men had been drafted.

Vishnu Pasupathy documents architectural styles from the formative years of the UAE, and how they influenced the visual fabric of Dubai and other cities.

Small-scale shop facades in the UAE are essentially an extension of who the shop keepers are and can be considered windows into small eco-systems.

Al Khazzan Park on Safa Road in Dubai disappeared a while ago – but the tall water tower built in the 1980s remains.

Our favourite Instagram photographers from the Middle East — discover Sudan, Saudi, Dubai, Palestine, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and elsewhere through them