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.

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).

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?

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

by Ben Rejali
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.

by Panos Aprahamian

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

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.

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.

“How do you connect solidarities together in a way that makes it organic, that makes it contextualized, and also makes it true?”

Chime for Change’s upcoming issue joins in the fight against child marriages.

Queer diaspora critical theory—and parkour.

by Monica Zandi,

A group show contextualizing historical memory and nostalgia through the artists’ subcultural values.

by Lizzy Vartanian Collier,

Borders confine, block, and break communities, says Alia Ali.