Mohammed Nassem: Reorienting Selfhood Through Design and Typography
"Orient:a place in the East,a verb of alignment and positioning, Orientation:a direction, a relative position of something or…
Boom.Diwan: An Applied Ethnomusicological Approach to the Revival of the Kuwaiti Bahri Music Spirit
Although I was born in Kuwait, my father was a diplomat and I was raised in Syria, Japan,…
Rethinking Car Culture in Bahrain
A well-built and sturdy transportation infrastructure can be extremely beneficial to a metropolis, as mobility is essential to…
An Underestimated Force: The Case of Female Entrepreneurship in Kuwait
Amira1 started her business, an independent coffee shop, at the age of 25. She would have started sooner,…
Cracking the Mold: The Case Against Binary Gender
In all unambiguously patriarchal societies—that is, in most societies of documented history and of the present1—binary models of…
On Creativity and the Gulf: An In-Flight Discussion with Cyril Zammit
Attached to the name Cyril Zammit (39) are the attributes of taste and talent. A Paris-born Frenchman of…
Khaleeji Literature: The Khaleeji Creative Imagination and its Impact on Identity
As a Khaleeji and an individual who is interested in the field of higher education and its development,…
Re-Designing Design Education in the Middle East
On a thirteen hour direct flight from New York to Kuwait, a younger version of myself sketched-out a…
Khalid Al-Busaidi: Behind The Lens at The Royal Opera House Muscat
Many have seen breathtaking images from the Royal Opera House Muscat, images that have been used around the…
In Conversation with H.E. Noura Al Kaabi: U.A.E. Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development
To celebrate our Tenth Anniversary issue, we flew out to Abu Dhabi to meet with the notably experienced…
The Confused Arab
One of Sofiane Si Merabet’s favorite memories growing up was traveling with his parents from France to Spain…
Ahaad Al-Amoudi
Imagine a man wearing a thobe and shmagh (traditional headdress) covered with pomegranates. The wallpaper behind him also…