Aestheticised Violence and The Spectacle of Political Slop

How a war became content, and why the exhaustion is the point

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

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

Meet the Initiatives Rethinking Syrian Craft

MSN3 DMSHQ and Syrian Crafts Council are working to rebuild what was lost before it disappears for good

The Only Producer Who’s Ever Gotten Fairuz’s Blessing

Kanye did it. Drake did it. Madonna got sued $2.5 million for it. Only one producer has ever sampled Fairuz completely legally, and he's telling the whole story

Anatomy of a Manouche: When Akkawi Cheese is Hard to Come By

As people move, recipes travel with them – stretching, adapting and carrying the weight of memory, longing and belonging