Hana Gamal draws our attention to the significant and overlooked role women play in Egyptian agriculture
2021
The Naguib Mahfouz Project is reviving the writings of one of Egypt’s most visionary authors
2023
Photography: Giles Duley profiles Syrian refugees in a simple, heartbreaking way
2014
Giles Duley's unseen photos of the vulnerable victims of the war in Syria
2014
Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City
2014
A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union
2018
The Egyptian Cassette Archive documents thousands of tape cover artworks from the 1960s – 2000s
2022
Photographer Alex Nazari explores Armenian history through its ubiquitous Soviet-era car, the Lada
2022
Type foundry Boharat Cairo on the vast possibilities of Arabic type design
2022
Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia
2016
Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”
2017
Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig
2012
The View From Cairo: probing the rise of the “Made in Egypt” aesthetic movement
2024
The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia
2018
Photographer Denis Dailleux tenderly captures Egyptian bodybuilders with their mums
2018
Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
Poignant, powerful documenting of the crisis in Syria by illustrator George Butler
2012
“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)
2018
Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings
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
Dive into the Syrian Stamp Archive for some bite-sized insights into Syria’s design history
2022
A glimpse into the fascinating and incredibly odd world of Soviet-era sanatoriums
2017
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
Archief Cairo on reviving the world’s only letterpress with hieroglyphics
2021
Graphic Design: Elana Schlenker ties together two creatives' takes on Egypt's uprising
2013
Slick, playful and graphically precise: Cairo-based studio Ntsal puts quality and communication first
2023
Sirkhane Darkroom works with children across Syria, Turkey and Iraq to learn skills in photography
2023
The Soviet Union goes neon in these mid-century illustrations of the future
2012
Why, in Egypt, creatives are returning to calligraphy in their droves
2025