Blogs – Culture

Eid Al-Adha, or the "Feast of Sacrifice", is right around the corner and Muslims around the globe are preparing for one of Islam's most significant festivals, Anadolu Agency reports....

Palestinian-American, Amer Zahr, is on a mission to heal through humour. In 2015, he started bringing fellow Arab-American comedians from the United States to perform stand-up across occupied Palestinian...

In 2005, not long after the death of his mother in Tunisia, Ayman knelt down next to her bed surrounded by her possessions and noticed a piece of paper...

7 lessons from Palestine on surviving lockdown

Syrian child refugees in Lebanon are using hand-written letters and drawings to bridge the vast gap between their experiences and the lives of other children in New York. The...

Libya is rich in more than just oil, but its cultural heritage in the war-torn north African country of Libya has been long forgotten, left to international organisations to...

While I was studying my bachelor's degree in the Islamic University of Malaysia I told my Palestinian friends that I want to do my master's in the Islamic University...

Although a coastal city, Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip is known as an agricultural area. Today, with all export opportunities shut down and borders closed, the agricultural...

Co-authored by Maria de la Guardia. The street has long served as a medium for collective voices to incite change in the Middle East, by hosting demonstrations, revolutions and...

Did you think setting up a startup was difficult? Try doing it in a place where electricity cuts out for up to 16 hours a day. Anyone familiar with...

Palestine Remix is an interactive tool that allows users to view or use parts of various Al Jazeera documentary films on Palestine to create their own productions. As part...

Palestine Remix is an interactive tool that allows users to view or use parts of various Al Jazeera documentary films on Palestine to create their own productions. As part...

Palestine Remix is an interactive tool that allows users to view or use parts of various Al Jazeera documentary films on Palestine to create their own productions. As part...

Palestine Remix is an interactive tool that allows users to view or use parts of various Al Jazeera documentary films on Palestine to create their own productions. MEMO will...

Palestine Remix is an interactive tool that allows users to view or use parts of various Al Jazeera documentary films on Palestine to create their own productions. MEMO will...

Some memories are so powerful that they leave traces, imprints and half-remembered fragments of the past that in the present moment can transform themselves into new repertoires of being...

When we turn our thoughts to contemporary art from Egypt, the first images that come to mind are political graffiti and militant posters. Our idea of Egyptian art is...

Mohamed Fadl, 44, sat in front of his butcher shop in the northern Giza suburb of Imbaba waiting for a customer to step in to buy meat. "For days,...

THEY call horse racing "The Sport of Kings" and during my time in Britain I have certainly always associated it with Royalty. I ran into Queen Elizabeth II during...

Le Trio Joubran, a Palestinian band comprising of three brothers from Nazareth, played to a packed audience at the Barbican, London on Sunday night. They sang alongside renowned Algerian...

Tazim Hamid's story began with a dream, and a voice fuelled by a passion to help the Palestinian cause. Set up to provide a platform for Palestinian artists and...

Thursday marked the 256th anniversary of the day the British Museum first opened its doors to the public. In 1759, the museum was the first of its kind: a...

In the Queen's Gallery, London, Sophie Gordon draws my attention to a collection of papyri on the wall. They have faded with age and some are ripped across the...

Palestine's story is one of displacement and dispossession – a people who have been dispersed to all corners of the world, and a homeland that has been methodically carved...

"I like folk music, and country music, too. In fact, I was listening to Kenny Rogers just recently. I know a lot of people smile when they hear me...

The Palestine Book Awards ceremony organised by Middle East Monitor on 7 November in Paddington took place on an evening of grim news emerging from Jerusalem, with Al-Aqsa under...

When it comes to Zionists, all forms of logic are disregarded and the world is turned upside down: right becomes wrong and wrong becomes right; justice becomes injustice and...

Oh My Sweet Land is a play set in a kitchen that explores the Syrian revolution turned civil war through the hour long narration of Syrian refugees' stories via...

A new exhibition aiming to shed light on the daily lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has opened at the P21 Gallery in London. The exhibition, called GAZA,...

"People don't associate Libya with creativity," says Nessrin Gebreel, co-founder of Noon Arts. Many could be forgiven for agreeing with her, but following the 2011 revolution which ended Mu'ammar...

Seven years ago Iraq's writers would gather in Al-Mutannabi Street, the literary district in Baghdad, sip coffee and consider the latest publications. Named after the classical 10th-century poet, the...

At first glance Nermine Hammam's work looks like beautiful Japanese prints hung on the lower floor of The Mosaic Rooms, a renovated Victorian townhouse that is now an art...