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.

A postcard from Damascus brought this illustrator to take his pens and sketchbooks and go draw life in the Syrian capital.

After Gezi, is it possible for Istanbul’s cultural industry to cling on to the easily marketable currency of “self-Orientalism”?

Movies screened at the 17th Arab Film Festival in San Francisco, finding new pathways to narrate conditions in the Arab universe of life.

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

Tigran Hamasyan, one of Armenia’s most acclaimed jazz pianists, brought to the screens in the dreamlike music video “Road Song.”

Vintage photos of when electricity was brought to the Beqaa in eastern Lebanon, discovered in a pile at Beirut’s flea market Souk al Ahad.

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

Abdulsalam Alamri, a resident of Riyadh, invites us to see a whole other side of life in the capital and other cities in his Saudi Arabia.

Go Local, Support Local — a cute and green grassroots campaign to consume homegrown Jordanian produce.