So many wished for this fantasy to be true: an openly Gay woman living in a traditional and conservative Arab country becoming a spokesperson against the oppression of the Syrian regime. Only to discover that …

“We did not make the revolution, no one has made it. The ‘Tahririans’ - if we can name it that - have made it”.

February 11, 2011 - after 18 days of continuous protest, Egypt is …

Every one has a theory on what it means to be Egyptian right now. Defiant, aggrieved, oppressed, tired, agitated, fighters,vehement, fearless, revolutionaries, ready. Few seem to see the long and difficult process that led to this …

“Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s an Arab superhero and he came to bring change”. This is a line from the track “Superhero” on Omar Offendum’s (born Chakaki) debut …

In “A Country Called Amreeka” author Alia Malek captures what it means to be Arab and American through narrative storytelling. Chronicling key turning points in contemporary history through the eyes of Arabs living in the U.S., Malek covers the decades that have made the Middle East, Arabs and Muslims so prominent - through tarnished reminders - in the American consciousness. Malek speaks to This is Worldtown about the journey that led her to publish this book, and the problem of an “invisibility gap” that serves to further vilify and distort images of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S.

“Microphone” is the new production by Egyptian director Ahmad Abdalla. Using documentary style through a fictionalized narrative, Microphone tells the story of Alexandria’s underground music scene. However, Abdalla changes - or so we’re told - …

If you ask many young listeners about hip hop’s history, you’d scant hear about its roots in African-American culture, about its foundation as a subculture taking root from East Coast to West Coast, a movement …

As the South Asian subcontinent changes at extraordinary speed, there’s no shortage of interest among writers inspired by the region’s fragile borders, captivating landscapes, and endless complexities. To formally recognise that interest and centre on …

This is… Inua Ellams. You should get to know.

Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright, performer and graphic designer. Or rather, a wordsworth, peruser and interloper traversing different worlds with rhythm and slice. His writing and performance comes with ornate detail and structure that straddles his Nigerian roots and British upbringing. Layered in richness and full of iconographic imagery – he presents British audiences with a hologram of an immigrant’s creative coming of age.

We received this callout for an incredibly relevant project, which especially stands out in light of growing Muslim defamation and anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States. The Ground-Zero Islamic Centre debacle has stirred a few …