Lara Dotson-Renta

I have spent the last year of my life carefully researching and writing about civil and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa. I have heard details...

The Narcicyst (Yassin Alsalman) is one of the most recognizable faces of the burgeoning Arab hip-hop movement. With roots in Basra, Iraq and raised between the...

Despite months of bloody uprisings, Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad remains steadfast in his repression of protesters. In the face of international pressure to stop...

Omar Offendum is a Syrian-American Hip-Hop artist and architect born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Washington D.C., and residing in Los Angeles. Recently, Omar...

The son of a Libyan dissident, Chicago-based Libyan-American hip hop artist Khaled M is one of a number of hip-hop artists to support the ‘Arab Spring’...

In the nine years since the terrorist events of September 11, 2001, many Westerners have come to view Islam (in all of its modes and refractions) as a religion...

As recent uprisings in the MENA (Middle East/North Africa) region continue to demonstrate, the new array of communication mediums available to this generation...

Muslim and Arab women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have long been regarded by ‘the West’ as silent, exotically ‘unseen’, or mere...

“Look what is happening/Miseries everywhere, Mr. President/I talk with no fear/Although I know I will get only trouble/I see injustices everywhere.”...