‘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
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Shiny Happy People
‘In a way, we put photography on the map in the Middle East, and people started to talk about it, even if they didn’t understand it’ - Reem Al Faisal in conversation with Joobin Bekhrad
I Saved My Belly Dancer
Youssef Nabil talks to Natasha Morris about his childhood, his fascination with the ‘Golden Age’ of Egyptian cinema, and his new series of work revolving around the figure of the belly dancer
Pictures of You
Little did Ania Dabrowska know that when she stepped into a Camden Town hostel, she would chance upon boxfuls of treasures from Lebanon’s past
In Living Colour
Artist Tareq Sayed Rajab de Montfort talks to Mohammed AlKouh about his romantic and ethereal hand-coloured photographs of the quotidian in Kuwait
Portrait of a Nation
From the palaces of Nasereddin Shah-e Qajar to the battlegrounds of the Iran-Iraq War, Sanaz Jamloo examines the development of photography in Iran and the social upheavals associated with it
Then and Now
A look at the works on display in the first part of an exhibition of contemporary photography from the Middle East and North Africa at LACMA
Wind, Sand, and Stars
A photo essay by Zakaria Wakrim featuring surreal images of the Atlas Mountains, the Sahara Desert, and the proverbial North African djellaba
In Search of Lost Time
Ara Güler’s photographs of Anatolia not only challenge distinctions between photojournalism and art, but also notions of Turkish history and identity
Reflections of Persia
‘Riccardo’s Iran, discovered and rediscovered … becomes a mirror in which the world and its distant lands appear before one’s eyes’