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California Dreaming: Middle Eastern Talent Takes The West Coast

As part of a yearlong series exploring the Middle Eastern diaspora’s contributions to the American fabric, BAZAAR meets a group of...

The Fearless Ones: Melody Ehsani

The post was originally published on Air Jordan THE DESIGNER TALKS ABOUT FINDING HER PURPOSE AND THE INSPIRATION BEHIND HER NEW AIR...

Meet 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...

O.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...

Bahia 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...

Shamsia Hassani, Afghanistan's first female graffiti artist, wants people to make art, not war

This post was originally published on First Post. The woman in a hijab, painted on a wall in Kabul, seems mischievous, impish — and the...

In Bahrain, Female Artists Are Questioning What Is Right Or Wrong

This post was originally published on The Establishment by Natasha Burge. ‘You have to be brave to make it in this industry.’ I’m rushing...

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