The classical and the crude combine to represent the multiple facets of The Arab City
2016
Vic Bakin is documenting Ukrainian youth in Kyiv’s de-occupied territories
2025
Guillaume Chauvin takes an unexpected approach to wartime photography in Ukraine
2020
“Our fight goes on. On battlefields and online” – Kyiv-based design writer Lena Kozar shares her story from inside the war
2022
Kieran Kesner's stunning portraits of people and protests in Ukraine
2014
Bokja's crafty Arab Spring inspired textiles are oddly compelling
2013
Photography: Marco Kesseler documents fear and waiting in Ukraine
2014
The personal is political: Haitham Haddad’s journey to bring Arabic back to public spaces in Palestine
2021
Viacheslav Poliakov shoots the “folk-baroque-industrial mess” of Ukraine and Poland
2019
Sword (Saif) with Scabbard
1701
Diplôme d'honneur. Golikoff (USSR). 1925
1925
A Ship in a Stormy Sea
1837
Cylinder seal with chariot hunting scene and Old South Arabian inscription
-900
Part of Lamp or Incense Burner Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes
900
Bracelet with Snake-Head Endings and Arabic Inscription, One of a Pair
1400
Bracelet with Snake-Head Endings and Arabic Inscription, One of a Pair
1400
Long-Handled Spoon Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes
1000
Finial with Arabic Inscription"Ya, Da'im" ("Oh, Everlasting!")
1600
Rice Server Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes
1100
Candlestick with Horsemen and Arabic Inscriptions Conveying Good Wishes and Blessings Upon the Sultan
1200
Soviet pocket watch (2)
2007
Soviet pocket watch (1)
2007
Gold Chaika Pocket Watch made in the USSR
2014
Magnificent retelling of Arabian Nights from the brilliant Noa Snir
2013
Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City
2014
Michal Chelbin's photography is an unusual insight into Ukraine's military boarding schools
2018
Ukrainian collective Join The Cool recreate an Eastern European school graduation album
2018
Blending fiction and reality, Julie Poly’s new series presents the colourful characters of the Ukrainian railway
2020
A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union
2018
Mohamad Abdouni on documenting an “important time in Arab queer culture”
2018
Photographer Alex Nazari explores Armenian history through its ubiquitous Soviet-era car, the Lada
2022
Photographer David Denil explores Ukraine's mindset after the 2014 revolution
2019
Type foundry Boharat Cairo on the vast possibilities of Arabic type design
2022
Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia
2016
Unnerving photographs of a youth military camp from Ukrainian Maxim Dondyuk
2015
Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”
2017
Alexander Chekmenev’s compelling photographs of elderly citizens in the newly independent Ukraine
2017
Photographer Joe Newman documents a boxing gym for young people in a Ukrainian war zone
2019
Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig
2012
Active Arab Women: Lara Al-Hadeedi records the determination of sporting Kuwaiti women
2016
Patrick Wassmann photographs the youthful existence in Mukachevo, Ukraine
2019
The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia
2018
Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
Ukrainian artist Lewel makes unashamedly crazy illustration
2012
Brilliant Lacombe sisters' show Hey'Ya featuring Arab sportswomen opens in London
2012
Clifford Jago returns with a bizarre, confusing but altogether joyful trip through Ukraine
2019
“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)
2018
JJ Lorenzo photographs a generation “marked by the frictions between East and West” in Ukraine
2021
Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings
2014
Chris Nunn immerses himself in the turbulent regions of Ukraine
2014
A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia – Molodezhi magazine
2017
What’s in store for the future of Arabic visual culture? Archief Cairo on communicating across borders
2021
Kyiv Type Foundry is conserving the architectural heritage of Ukraine by pulling typefaces out from underground
2025
A glimpse into the fascinating and incredibly odd world of Soviet-era sanatoriums
2017
Drifting SUVs in the Arabian desert: Peter Garritano explores the world of hajwalah
2016
This charity photo project gave Ukrainian children disposable cameras to capture life through their eyes
2024
Elena Subach shoots Ukrainian grannies to bridge the generation gap
2019
Yelena Yemchuk’s photo series Odesa documents a Ukrainian city undergoing momentous change
2022
Preserving Syrian design history and graphics in the Arab world: Meet the Syrian Design Archive
2021
Concrete Citizens documents the residents of Soviet brutalist buildings in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova
2020
Chantal Jahchan explores the Arabic type design landscape and concepts of modernity in En Route
2018
It’s Nice That’s print sale for Ukraine includes artworks by Jean Jullien, Anthony Burrill, Kelly Anna and lots more
2022
The Soviet Union goes neon in these mid-century illustrations of the future
2012