Annie Sommer

The Dubai International Film Festival is in its eleventh year. In 2010, the festival featured outdoor screenings on the outskirts of the city. (Photo via...

1. Malala Yousafzai, 17 Malala Yousafzai via Wikimedia commons. 2014 was the year of Malala. The human rights activist, who advocates on behalf of...

In the Middle East, camel racing is a thousand years long tradition. It is also notorious for rampant human rights abuses, which include the trafficking of...

1. @elseed French-Tunisian artist el Seed, who coined the term “calligraffity”, is redefining the idea of traditional Arabic calligraphy for the 21st...

Hip-hop began in the Bronx in the late 1970’s as a form of musical and cultural resistance against the repressive mainstream and state-sanctioned violence...

1. The Dice Player by Nissmah Roshdy This award winning film directed by 22-year-old Egyptian Nissmah Roshdy is a calligraphic animation, or “visual...

In the wake of an Egyptian activist’s suicide, young people on social media collectively mourned and shared her story. Using the Arabic hashtag...

Konversation.us Image by Hawa, Mas#allah, Konversation.us A digital art gallery and platform curated by Browntourage Konversation functions as a digital,...

These days, the experience of youth is deeply intertwined with the online world. For young people in the diaspora, the web serves as a particularly unique mode...

As part of the 5x5 project, artist Sanaz Mazinani took over a tiny corner of Washington D.C. in the name of art. Until November 21st, her installation,...