Ben rejali 7/20/25 Ben rejali 7/20/25

Demon Hands and Dead Soldiers: Visions of America on Iran’s Stamps

Here the Iranian government lays bare its vision of the United States: dead soldiers are left to rot, its embassies are exposed as “spy dens,” and top secret CIA documents lay scattered about. Patriotic iconography disintegrates as bald eagles shatter, stars and stripes go up in flames, and the Capitol building crumbles into ruin.

Ben rejali 1/10/25 Ben rejali 1/10/25

Letter by Letter: An Interview with Aya Krisht

by Ben Rejali
Aya Krisht discusses her design practice with the letterpress, the history of Arabic type and the struggle to preserve traditional printing methods in the midst of war.

Ben rejali 1/9/25 Ben rejali 1/9/25

Walls, Censorship and the Illusion of Control: An Interview with Khaled Jarrar

Samuel Tafreshi sat down with Palestinian filmmaker and multimedia artist Khaled Jarrar to discuss border technology, the theatrical nature of nation states, and his films Infiltrators (2012) and Notes on Displacement (2022).

Omar Alhashani 1/9/25 Omar Alhashani 1/9/25

The Body of a King

by Samuel Tafreshi

What is to be done with the body of a king? When all of the meaning and majesty imbued in his person shrivels and fades before the world, what does he become?

Omar Alhashani 1/9/25 Omar Alhashani 1/9/25

Where Are You Going? إلى أين ذاهب؟

by Afram
A bilingual experimental comic exploring paranoia, boredom, and surveillance in the streets of Beirut. The inaugural comic of writer and artist Afram.

Omar Alhashani 8/10/24 Omar Alhashani 8/10/24

Not, Not Nation

by Panos Aprahamian

A radical re-envisioning of how anti-capitalist political projects should conceive of time and place.

Omar Alhashani 8/6/24 Omar Alhashani 8/6/24

Fragile Facades: Illusions of Change in Kabul’s Contemporary Architecture

by Muheb Esmat,

In a country still living through the effects of a conflict more than four decades old, the rate of obsolescence of architectural styles and modes is as fast if not faster than the denigrating political and economic systems fostering them.

Omar Alhashani 9/4/21 Omar Alhashani 9/4/21

The Commander of Who?

by Marcus Hibbeln

While ‘inclusive’ to a certain extent, the state-sponsored brand of Islam in Morocco has often been an exclusionary national force that has monopolized the interpretation of Islam and alienated large groups of citizens.