In old Cairo, an innovative learning centre provides a free-thinking alternative to both conventional schools and elitist, inaccessible education.

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

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

At 24, Youssef is the leader of PanSTARRS indie rock band based in Cairo. His new EP is called “Ghaby Ghaby Ghaby” or in English: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.

Etudiants en art, passionnés de peinture ou curieux se retrouvent à Ain Zebboudja, tous les jours depuis plusieurs mois, jusque tard dans la nuit, pour peindre sur les murs.

Art students, aficionados and the simply curious have been flocking to Ain Zebboudja every day, staying until late in the evening to paint the walls.

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.

French reporter Arnaud Contreras has been travelling for many years in the Sahara and explored the local musical culture for his project “Sahara Rocks”.

In this introduction to our recently published anthology Beirut Re-Collected, Mashallah News co-editor Jenny Gustafsson recalls an encounter with the residents of Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

911, F-16, 666. Numbers that seem to signify danger, alarm, war. In a Saudi Arabian coding system, they are graffiti tags representing tribes and regions.