Art + Culture

Muftah is putting together a Special Collection that looks at the intersection between popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa in the...

After hearing that Jack Shaheen had passed away last week, I began reflecting on when I was first drawn to his work as a high school student. At the time, my...

U.S. arts and crafts retailer, Hobby Lobby, was recently found to have smuggled thousands of ancient artifacts out of Iraq between 2010 and 2011.  The...

Comics scholar and graphic novel author A. David Lewis recently spoke with Muftah about Haawiyat, his comic book for Syrian refugee children. Lewis’s second...

When it comes to Western audiences and Eastern women, there is a long tradition of willful ignorance, fetishization, and condescension. In the case of Arab and...