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HinDidi: When Bollywood Invited Algeria to Dance
In the aftermath of independence, Bollywood offered Algeria something revolution could not: the freedom to dream, to love, and to imagine a life beyond struggle. Decades later, one Indian film, Janitou, remains a tender relic of a future that never quite arrived
Salam, El Mehdi!
Pop star, filmmaker and now leading man, El Mehdi talks gatekeeping, going home and the peace that comes with choosing yourself
Aestheticised Violence and The Spectacle of Political Slop
How a war became content, and why the exhaustion is the point
A Language Of Image: From Manuscripts To Meta-Algorithms
From Islamic manuscripts to Blender renders, the image of the Arabic language has always been built from overlapping histories and references. The designers pushing it forward today are proving that visual history is most useful when it becomes a tool for invention rather than nostalgia, and that the archive is not a repository of finished answers
At SeeDjerba, the Tunisian Island Becomes the Gallery
At its 2026 edition, See Djerba turned a Tunisian island's fortresses, shrines and craft villages into a gallery that asks you to look at the place as closely as the art
Meet the Initiatives Rethinking Syrian Craft
MSN3 DMSHQ and Syrian Crafts Council are working to rebuild what was lost before it disappears for good
Ali Kazim and Zarina Beckon Us Into Their Urdu Worlds
The UAE’s inaugural exhibition dedicated to the Urdu language, curated by Hammad Nasar