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Worlds of Their Own Making
The emerging cohort of designers transforming raw material into a living temperament
Ugliness Looks Back
From a 1960s Iranian leper colony to Kim Kardashian's surgeon, tracing how "ugly" became a diagnosis to be cured rather than a way of being seen
The sky held it, the earth remembered: A moving memoir of scale, loss and time
At Ishara Art Foundation, Rohini Devasher, Shahana Rajani and Sarker Protick trace ecological change from the cosmos to a drowned delta to the streets of Dhaka, asking what it means to grieve a landscape on a human scale
This Film Festival is Taking SWANA Cinema from Beirut to Rome for Its Second Edition
Half film festival, half fundraiser, Here & Elsewhere returns for its second year in Beirut and Rome with a programme built around memory
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