Ahmad Abu Khalil takes a look at the career of Jordanian artist Muhanna Durra, who for seventy years has never stopped painting.

Breaking the artwork/audience binary, “The Facility” presents a holistic view of the process of making art, emphasizing the ‘making’ not what’s ‘made’.

بعيدًا عن النظرة لمستخدمي الأجهزة الذكية كمدمنين مسلوبي الإرادة، هل يخلق تعلقنا المستمر بهذه الأجهزة أنماطًا جديدة من التضامن والتعبير السياسي؟

These Egyptian works wait on pavements for a passing chance at a day’s work, an opportunity that may or may not come for days. Ammar Al-Shuqairi reports their stories.

On the sides of the desert road leading to Al-Ruweished, Bedouin tents are scattered; belonging to the families of those guarding the telecommunications towers. This is owing to the difficult circumstances and the hindrances to mobility within the semi-isolated area.

يسر حبر دعوتكم للتقديم للأكاديمية البديلة للصحافة العربية، وهي برنامج زمالة مدّته عام كامل يشجع على الإبداع والتفكير النقدي. تقدمRead More

For over five decades, Jordanian government policies have changed modes of work and production in Thiban district among others. But after a period of economic stability, the new mode can no longer provide for residents nor include them, while going back to agriculture has become near impossible.
By Shaker Jarrar and Yazan Melhem. Illustrations by Rawand Issa. Translated by Luca Vettori

How English became an obstacle standing in the way of the academic and professional advancement of many talented, young speakers of other languages, and how it can be learnt without re-enforcing such exclusion.

When their families came to Jordan from Pakistan, agriculture provided them with better lives. Today, they live “in a deadlock”: they cannot return to their estranged homeland, and remaining is becoming more difficult, year after year.
By Dalal Salameh. Photos by Mohammed Zakaria. Translated by Luca Vettori.

The stories of Kamel Darwish, Abd Al-Fataah Qasim, Atta Elayyan, Ali Al-Madani and Khaled and Hamza Al-Hajj Mustafa, who had moved to New Zealand in the hopes of building new lives, but were among the fifty victims of the Christchurch attack.