Articles in Features
This is Worldtown speaks to the director/producer of a short documentary on the art of ‘Wall Chalking’ in Lahore, Pakistan. As a means of expression, the chosen sites and the messages conveyed through wall chalking …
“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 …
There is nothing unusual about poetry playing a galvanizing role in a revolutionary moment.
Day 14. Each day dedicated to a claim. To reprise the movement. Day 14 was the “Day of Martyrs”. Despite these bleak …
“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 …
At long last, Dead Prez land in Vancouver performing to a sold-out audience. Features Contributor Fathima Cader covered their hyped gig at Fortune Sound Club on September 27th, 2010, with Vancouver finally getting a hit of, arguably, hip-hop’s most politically charged tour de force.
From backstage to front of house, feature contributor Jesse Newman, and photographer Daniel Kukla cover the S/S 2011 collection of Malaysian-born, New York based fashion veteran Zang Toi, during September’s New York Fashion Week.
