Niveen Ghoneim

Niveen Ghoneim was born into a family of assholes who wouldn’t take her to Michael Jackson’s 1997 Munich concert.

Malak Mattar first started painting during the 2014 to limn the horrors of war in…

The 18-Year-Old Palestinian Artist Liberating Gaza One Painting at a Time

While searching for a cure for cancer in Jordan, Penelope Shihab made a scientific…

The Palestinian Scientist Conquering the Global Beauty Industry with Camel Milk

After a picture of a denim jacket she’d embellished with the words ‘Not Your…

#NotYourHabibti: The 21-Year-Old Fighting the Occupation with Palestinian Feminism

Last month, the female entrepreneurs of Egypt's refugee communities filled up the…

From Refugees to Entrepreneurs: 5 Arab Women Share their Stories

Once a vibrant community, perfectly integrated into society, the Jews of Egypt have…

One of the Last Jewish Women in Egypt: The Community's Vibrant Past & Macabre Present

When he is not instructing technical diving, Tarek Omar recovers the bodies of…

The Middle East Has the World's Deadliest Diving Site – This Man Recovers the Bodies Drowned In It

In their quest for cultural identification, Arabstazy found their sound – one that…

Arabstazy: The Pan-Arab Collective Showcasing the Middle East & North Africa's Electronic Music

We speak to L’Association des Libres Penseurs (ALP – The Freethinkers Association),…

Why This Tunisian Organisation is Protesting Mandatory Public Fasting in Ramadan

Avant-garde Electro Shaabi music sensation Islam Chipsy sits down with Niveen…

Electro-Shaabi Pioneer Islam Chipsy & the Battle for Egypt’s Musical Identity

Niveen Ghoneim meets the veiled fashion designer who has dressed the likes of Queen…

Meet the Palestinian Fashion Designer Elevating Hijab Couture in Egypt

Mouad Aboulhana delivers rapturous depictions of daily life in his native Tangiers,…

Pop Artist Moaud Aboulhana: Reclaiming the Future of Morocco from Its Colonialist Past

By packaging its original Arabic debut in a contemporary supernatural teenage…

How Netflix' First Original Arabic Series 'Jinn' Could Change the MENA’s Entertainment Politics

A journalist, an Oscar and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, and a rising fashion…

This Oscar-Winning Pakistani Filmmaker Infiltrates Taliban Territory & Owns a Vintage Fashion Label

Hatem Al Akeel is a rising star on the global fashion stage, dressing some of the…

The Saudi Designer Who Took the Thobe Global is Now Giving Women the Wheel

We sit down with author, serial entrepreneur, mentor, and diplomat Omar Busaidy to…

Omar Busaidy: The Poster Child of the UAE’s Millennial Entrepreneurship Scene

Kenyan entrepreneur Ahmed Al Hadad talks about his 2015 venture iUmrah, an online…

Virtual Umrah? The Startup Bringing Muslim Pilgrimage Into the Digital Age

Basel Zaraa has been a refugee his whole life. Born and raised in the Yarmouk Camp…

This Palestinian Refugee Etches His Journey on People’s Flesh

2 years ago, Nuseir Yassin, creator of Nas Daily, quit his high-paying tech job to…

Palestinian-Israeli Travel Filmmaker Nas Daily and the Trouble with Digital Peace

When he is not being flown halfway across the world to cater lavish events – the…

The Chef Putting Tunisian Cuisine on America’s Culinary Map

Libyan artist Alla Budabbus continues to clutch his brush, in the hope that, one…

The Pop Artist Painting Libya Back to Glory

We sit down with Lebanese playwright and theatre director Issam Bou Khaled who has…

Putting Lebanon's Social Division on a Stage

An architect by day and an origamist by night, Sudanese artist Hadeel Subahi willed…

The Sudanese Artist Lighting Up Dubai with Origami Lampshades

Meet Jordanian business maven – and patriarchy’s worst enemy – Nour Al Hassan,…

The Jordanian Businesswoman Forging a Booming Female Empowerment Economy

2 years ago, doe-eyed French-Tunisian artist eL Seed unveiled a giant piece of…

eL Seed: The Tunisian Calligraffiti Artist Making the World's Walls Speak in Arabic Prose

Meet the Muslim Australian millennial staging a politico-sartorial revolution to…

The Gay Pride Hijab Frenzy in Australia – and the Muslim Designer Behind It

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