Sherif Dhaimish tells the story of his father, Hasan, who fled Benghazi as a teenager for Burnley in England, where he later cut a name for himself as ‘The Cleaver’
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Last Afghan Standing
‘We were the only Afghans in Sedona’ - photographer Negine Jasmine looks back on growing up Afghan in Arizona and coming to terms with her culture and heritage
Wild is the Wind
In search of the world’s oldest windmills, Jippe Kreuning - the son of a Dutch miller - embarks on a journey to Khorasan in northeastern Iran, along with a Persian phrasebook
Threads of Continuity
Kriti Bajaj remembers a recent trio of New Delhi-based exhibitions involving India, Iran, and the UK, which provided a novel and comprehensive overview of Zoroastrian culture, art, and identity
Heaven’s Scent
Al Jazeera’s Ali Al-Woozain embarks on a journey around the world to discover the origins of oud and the beloved scent of his childhood days in Qatar
Quick Sands
Sherif Dhaimish revisits the history of Libya’s extravagant and short-lived Tripoli Grand Prix as well as its sociocultural context and underlying colonialist narratives
Karima
Joobin Bekhrad’s take on Hassan Hajjaj’s fly-on-the-wall documentary about a day in the life of Karima, a henna girl in Marrakech’s Djemaa El Fnaa
The Reed Flute
‘Morocco was not a place that would give you the luxury of forgetting it; it seeped, slowly but surely, into your bones, and burned its image between your eyes’
My Grandfather’s Room
‘His house was full of welcoming mysteries, except for one room on the top floor called “the salon”. It was rarely open, and only used for “important” visitors …’
Soul of the South
A visual journey across the vibrant and culturally diverse cities of Abadan, Ahvaz, Shush, and Shushtar in Iran’s southern Khuzestan province