Art of Resistance

If the Olive Trees Knew: Art, Memory, and the Responsibility to Witness

Artists Demand: No Music for Genocide

The Amchit Seal Cave: How Profit Swallowed A Coastal Sanctuary

Yumna Al-Arashi on the Power of Art: Naomi Shimada sits down with the artist to discuss her first museum show, 'Body as Resistance.'

Prosfygika and the War on Communal Life: collective resistance in the age of gentrification

In Memory of Ahmad Kaabour: the sound of the land, the heartbeat of the people

Genderqueer and Here in Cairo

Joy Is Resistance: Collective Survival in the Aftermath of Catastrophe

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A Brewmaster in Palestine: Brewing Through Blackouts and Blockades in The West Bank

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Yasmine Hamdan: I Remember, I Forget

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Rahma Zein is Defying Journalism

Weaving Palestinian Heritage with Lara Salous’ Wool Woman

Harnessing queer and trans protest magic: How magic has become a conduit to resist and demand justice

How to Resist “Organized Loneliness”: resisting isolation in the age of digital authoritarianism

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Against Kurdish Erasure: From the editor of Sleeping in the Courtyard

A Call to Arms

From Seoul to Gaza: How a Grassroots Coalition Is Rewriting the Politics of Solidarity

Beyond the Noise: on exhaustion and the right to dream beyond empire

The FPV Drone Pilots Behind the Ukrainian War

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Dreaming Beyond Punishment: Samora Pinderhughes On a New Way of Making Art and His Upcoming MoMA Show

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A Lone Protester, Rain or Shine: One Man’s Daily Act of Dissent in Japan

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Scholasticide in Gaza: On the Systematic Destruction of Palestinian Education

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Engineering for Genocide at MIT

Mirror Mirror on the Wall: The Art That Proves How Queer Iran Once Was

Shradha Kochhar on Threading the Needle with Care and Community

Cassandra Mayela Allen

Praise Fuller

Carlos Agredano

Céline Semaan

Ziad Rahbani and the Art of Creative Rebellion

The Wedding That Ate Venice

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Emel Mathlouthi

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A Tale of Two Filmmakers: Omar Gabriel x Ruchi Mital

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Michèle Aoun

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Isamu Noguchi: A Legacy Split in Two

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Permit to See: A call to action in response to Gaza

Not a Moment of Silence: Marking 77 Years of Nakba

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Creating Your Own World with Ishmael Butler

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Moz

Maen Hammad

Cassandra Mayela Allen

Chavis Marmol

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Sheenkhālåi and Shaokhālåi by Shamayel Shalizi

Nybé Ponzio

Resistance Recipe: Pickles

Love poem with rockets

Brea Andy

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The Aesthetic of Liberation: Building a Visual Language for Liberation

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The Dandy Strikes Back: The Bold Legacy of Black Elegance (and Why the 2025 Met Gala Might Be Its Riskiest Yet)

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Nicholas Galanin: Art as a Weapon Against Colonialism

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Charlie Engman

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Dressing the Invisible

Collecteurs

The Politics of Sound with Ana Tijoux

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Danny Aros

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DIY OR DIE/ KILL YOUR IDOLS

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On Art, Life & Activism: Nan Goldin, photographed by Mohamad Abdouni, interviewed by Céline Semaan

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Middle Eastern / North African Tattoo Artists: Queering Tattoo Culture

Yasmin Ali

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Sarah Elawad

Sanyu Nicolas

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Samar Younes

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Ridikkuluz

Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich

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Hanan Sharifa

Diana Carla Rowe

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Chris Cook

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Design for Black Indigenous Futures

Why is Art so Important?

Reclaiming Language: Marwan Kaabour’s Queer Arab Glossary & the Power of Words

Exile to expression: how Lina Soualem’s film challenges colonial narratives

Saj Issa for Art & Ecology

Treat Me Like Your Mother: Immortalizing the untold stories of Queer & Trans folks, from Beirut & beyond

Black Fashion: Revolution and the Somatics of Joy and Pleasure