By Ragad Ahmad

For nearly five decades, El Funoun has understood that keeping Palestinian tradition alive and building upon it constitutes a political act in a context where Palestinians’ very existence remains contested.

By Ben Bennett

Informed by her architectural training and her Sudanese heritage, Elnayal’s art envisions a different, personal kind of futurism in Sudan. And at Studio Black, she doesn’t just imagine what a better future for designers might be, she creates it. 

By Elissa Odeh

What began as background music for diners soon evolved into Barakka, a multicultural band that fuses Turkish folk, Anatolian rock, Middle Eastern classics and Western instrumentation.

By Lauren Abunassar

The insistence on storytelling as testimony of survival, and of survival as a defiant act, is a vibrant throughline in much of Chahwan’s work.

By Elissa Odeh

Ballan believes that Palestinians need to be able to express a larger narrative about who they are—one that reflects their presence not only in politics, but in art, music, filmmaking, academia and more.

By Ragad Ahmad

After years of American individualism, where success is measured by self-sufficiency and connections often feel transactional, the interdependence I found in Palestine felt like rediscovering a language I had forgotten I knew.