CairoScene • 3rd March 2026 Ex-UNRWA Teachers Bring Palestinian Children Back to Class in Cairo The Fikra Initiative is restoring in person education to displaced Palestinian children in Cairo after two years without school.
SceneNowSaudi • 4th February 2026 Examining What Technology Makes Us Feel at the Diriyah Biennale Phones that speak, the first Arabic computer and rapid change in Saudi Arabia. Diriyah Biennale 2026 asks how technology reshapes what we feel, remember and carry as the world keeps moving.
CairoScene • 4th February 2026 Ekhlas Al-Azzah Teaches Arabic From Her Wheelchair in Palestine Volunteers travel from across the globe to care for Ekhlas Al-Azzah in one of the smallest Palestinian refugee camps in the world. In exchange, she teaches them Arabic and about life in the West Bank.
CairoScene • 1st February 2026 How Palestine’s Taybeh Brewery Started a Beer Revolution Taybeh Brewery is home to many superlatives, holding the titles of The First Microbrewery in the Middle East, The First Palestinian Beer, and The First Female Brewer in the Region.
CairoScene • 6th January 2026 Suad Amiry on Defending Palestinian Identity Through Cultural Heritage "The protection of cultural heritage is the protection of memory and identity." Author and architect Suad Amiry speaks with us about protecting Palestinian identity in the face of Israeli erasure.
SceneHome • 21st December 2025 We Design Beirut Asks: How Can Design Rebuild The City? For WDB Beirut, design is a way to reconnect people with their city, activate youth, and pull Lebanon back into the global cultural conversation.
CairoScene • 5th December 2025 Tattoo Designer Yehia Moldan Translates Arabic Into Geometry on Skin Yehia Moldan transforms Arabic letters into abstract geometric tattoos, creating a language that maps his journey from Gaza to Sweden, and Berlin to Cairo.
CairoScene • 14th November 2025 Gaza’s Borderless Biennale Carries Palestinian Art Across the Globe CairoScene spoke to the Gaza Biennale artists living in Egypt about what it means to create in exile.
CairoScene • 3rd November 2025 With Hoda Abrahim You Will Find Love, Inshallah Hoda Abrahim is the star of Hulu's The Muslim Matchmaker. She will go to the ends of the earth to find you your person—by even cold messaging eligible singles on LinkedIn.
CairoScene • 8th October 2025 Gazans in Cairo Create Livelihoods Beyond Donations With SafeGrow SafeGrow is the organization supporting Gazan refugees displaced in Egypt find freelance work, rebuild businesses that have been destroyed, and start new ones.
CairoScene • 7th October 2025 PalPsych Trains Volunteers to Support Gazan Refugees in Cairo Amy Estrada started PalPsych when she saw a gap in mental health services for Gazan refugees in Cairo. Since 2024, she has trained over 70 volunteers, many without a background in psychology.
SceneHome • 7th October 2025 RIWAQ Centre Fights to Safeguard Gaza’s Architecture Amidst Genocide As Gaza's cultural heritage sites fall under attack by Israeli forces, the Ramallah-based RIWAQ Centre for Architectural Conservation intervenes to conserve them.
CairoScene • 7th October 2025 Halfpipes Under Siege: The Skateboarding Scene in Gaza & the West Bank Gaza Skate Team and the West Bank's Skateboarding.ps run lessons for kids in the occupied Palestinian territories, with support from the UK-based SkatePal.
CairoScene • 30th August 2025 Advice From My Bawab, The Most Reliable Man In My Life Since I moved to Cairo a month ago, Abu Saleh has been the most reliable constant in my life. He wants me to know I am safe here, but at a cost.
22nd May 2025 Talking to a Taxi A piece I wrote for a class at the Institute of Critical Thought in Amman titled "Kafka Goes to Palestine."
The Cairo Review of Global Affairs • 27th March 2025 In Jordan, Trump is a Divisive Figure Before Trump officially took office, some Jordanians believed that he was the “lesser of two evils”. Now, two months into his presidency, Trump has few fans in Amman.
Al Jazeera • 26th May 2024 To understand my dad, I needed to learn about the day he was shot My father, Anthony Shadid, was shot while reporting on the second Intifada. I went on a journey to meet the man who saved his life.
Al Jazeera • 17th February 2024 ‘The tourists have gone’: Jerusalem restaurateur struggles amid Gaza war The owner of Jerusalem's hugely popular Sarwa Street Kitchen has lost 19 family members in Gaza and now faces closure.
Al Jazeera • 12th October 2023 ‘This is different’: At a West Bank cafe, Israel’s assault edges closer At a popular restaurant, chips and a game night can’t break the tension – and a TikTok video prepares patrons for worse
Al Jazeera • 9th October 2023 ‘It’s time to go’: When a Palestinian maths class becomes a victim of war As the Israel-Hamas war broke out, a conflict-scarred preteen comforts an adult teacher, ‘I don’t have feelings.’
