National Geographic’s “Race Issue” Examines the Magazines Past & Raises Questions About Its Present

On March 12, 2018, National Geographic magazine launched its “Diversity in America” series with “The Race Issue,” which includes a painful but...

Marie-Helene Rousseau

March 17th, 2018

A Free Online Photo Archive Explores the Middle East’s Pluralistic History

In September 2017, the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan published an online archive of historical images from across the Middle...

Jessica Holland

December 11th, 2017

Help Us Cover Donald Trump’s Authoritarianism

Does Donald Trump scare you? Because he scares us. For over 6.5 years, Muftah has doggedly covered authoritarian governments around the world. We never thought...

Maryam Jamshidi

February 10th, 2017

Iranian & Arab Women Photographers Tell Their Own Stories in New D.C. Exhibit

Arab and Iranian women are a favorite obsession of the West. That obsession usually turns on two questions: how do they dress and are they oppressed? Of...

Muftah

May 10th, 2016

This Is What a Refugee’s Funeral Looks Like in Greece

Ahmed’s funeral took place on the top of a small Greek mountain on the island of Chios, overlooking the Aegean Sea that he died crossing.* Standing around...

Erin Kilbride

April 11th, 2016