Designer Khaled Bader drawing a mural in the new Tanarout centre.
Cultural Space in Benghazi
Culture

Freedom Through Art

by Mat Nashed
Not only local fisherman suffer from the predrying of Lake Urmia: Salt and dust also severely affect regional farms and their farmland.
Interview with Ecologist Naghmeh Mobarghaee
Society

Saving Iran’s Lake Urmia

by Robert Chatterjee
Sallum, a border town between Egypt an Libya
Reading Egypt’s Policy on Libya

Egypt’s Balancing Act in Libya

by Alessandra Bajec
A Lybian School in Egypt
Libyans Barred Refugee Status in Egypt

Seeking Refuge

by Nahla El Nemr
Carsten Ast and Noha Khattab performing at a studio based in Berlin
Can Performance Art Help Heal Egypt’s Wounds?
Culture

Egypt’s Mad Modern Circus

by Leo Wigger
File photo: An oil worker in the south of Libya photographed in 2014.
The Black Gold Fueling Libya's Crisis

A Winner-Take-All War for Oil

by Wil Crisp
Aden, 2015. The port town in Yemen was reduced to rubble, ravaged by the incessant shelling of the Houthi militia that had surrounded the city
Interview with Guillaume Binet
Politics

Forgotten Crises

by Stian Overdahl
The Assad family, which has ruled Syria for almost half a century, is from the Alawite sect.
Sectarian Identity and Image in Syria

The Discovery of the Alawites

by Tarek Azizeh
Taking chances
Bottom-up Development
Society

Taking Chances

by Paul Riemann
Zahra Langhi, a Libyan exile and human rights defender.
Profile of Zahra Langhi
Politics

‘We Have to Struggle for a Better Libya’

by Mat Nashed