Podcast: Baladi covers everything from bread to dance
Baladi is one of those elusive Arabic words that can mean different things to different people at different times.
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When you’re a collector… don’t give too much away
Collecting may seem like a harmless hobby but being a collector allows others to gather a whole lot more about you than you let on or probably even know.
Read MoreFICTION: Escaping terror firma, Part 2 – Breaking out of the fish bowl
We live in a fish bowl. It would be more likely for a pink elephant to fall out of the sky than for me to get Faris alone somewhere. But the pink elephant somehow managed to land right next to me.
Read MoreFICTION: Escaping terror firma, Part 1: Hell from the heavens
Poetry and song talk of soaring free as a bird, but the heavens are where hell resides. People talk of taking wing, but, me, I’d rather take fin, be free as a fish.
Read MorePodcast: Egypt’s cartoon villains and heroes
The battle between Egyptian revolutionary and counterrevolutionary forces is being played out in caricature.
Read MoreWatanili: The art of helping Syrian children rediscover childhood
Through art, film and education, Watanili is a grassroots initiatives which is working to give traumatised Syrian kids a dose of normal childhood.
Read MoreReweaving Palestinian tradition for the new Palestinian woman
Untha is a rare Jerusalem-based label which reimagines traditional Palestinian fashions for the 21st century and pays tribute to Palestinian women.
Read MoreDabke and the liberation of dance
“Dance is resistance. It’s the most refined way for us, the Palestinian people, to express our cause… Dance is a form of liberation.”
Read MoreThe Viking Allah and the submerged history of Islam in Europe
A mysterious ring in a dead Viking woman’s tomb shows how Northern Europeans came into contact with Muslims and Islam before even becoming Christian.
Read MoreFilmmakers shed light on reel life in Palestine
Filmmakers are moving away from the headline conflict to shed light on real life in Palestine as lived by actual Palestinians, both real and fictional.
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