Mar 5, 20205 min readCalifornia Dreaming: Middle Eastern Talent Takes The West CoastAs part of a yearlong series exploring the Middle Eastern diaspora’s contributions to the American fabric, BAZAAR meets a group of...
Mar 5, 20208 min readThe Fearless Ones: Melody EhsaniThe post was originally published on Air Jordan THE DESIGNER TALKS ABOUT FINDING HER PURPOSE AND THE INSPIRATION BEHIND HER NEW AIR...
Jan 23, 20209 min readMeet Haifaa al-Mansour, the Saudi Woman Challenging Riyadh—and Hollywood—to Evolve Originally posted on Vanity Fair by Rebecca Keegan With her country at a crossroads, the “crazy more than brave" director of Mary Shelley...
Jan 23, 20203 min readO.C. artist Roxanne Varzi shares her border-crossing work that resists media clichés about Iran Originally posted on LA Times by Namrata Poddar It’s a recent warm winter afternoon in Orange County as a crowd gathers in the back alley...
Dec 3, 20194 min readBahia Shehab’s Anti-Brexit Street Art This post was originally written by Nicholas Schmidle in the New Yorker. Bahia Shehab, a forty-two-year-old street artist, arrived in...
Dec 11, 20186 min readShamsia Hassani, Afghanistan's first female graffiti artist, wants people to make art, not warThis post was originally published on First Post. The woman in a hijab, painted on a wall in Kabul, seems mischievous, impish — and the...
Nov 14, 20188 min readIn Bahrain, Female Artists Are Questioning What Is Right Or WrongThis post was originally published on The Establishment by Natasha Burge. ‘You have to be brave to make it in this industry.’ I’m rushing...