You Give Me That Contact High
Issue 35 - Noise Vamika Sinha Issue 35 - Noise Vamika Sinha

You Give Me That Contact High

The UAE, like many countries, has grown increasingly entranced with hip-hop culture, streetwear, and their history. This cross-cultural interest manifests in the arrival of the "Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop" exhibition at Manarat al Saadiyat, reviewed here by EIC Vamika Sinha

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A Homecoming
Issue 34 - Care Cassandra Mitchell Issue 34 - Care Cassandra Mitchell

A Homecoming

In this short story by Cassandra Mitchell, a girl stands on her balcony alone with her thoughts. The city of Abu Dhabi reads her mind and asks, “Who cares that you’re happy?”

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Sentimental City: Caring for Mina Zayed
Issue 34 - Care Vamika Sinha & Myriam Louise Taleb Issue 34 - Care Vamika Sinha & Myriam Louise Taleb

Sentimental City: Caring for Mina Zayed

In a city designed to be unsentimental, Vamika Sinha reflects on the need to care for community space and history in the wake of announcements to redevelop Abu Dhabi's Mina Zayed – an essay incorporating text and photographs by herself and Myriam Louise Taleb

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Amma, Acha & Malayalam ft. english
Issue 21 Aathma Nirmala Dious Issue 21 Aathma Nirmala Dious

Amma, Acha & Malayalam ft. english

“This new city gentrifies her tongue; / he wonders if he can build “ – Aathma Nirmala Dious’ new poem weaves her parents’ lives and history with their migration to the Gulf from Kerala, India.

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Appa
Issue 20 - Food Thirangie Jayatilake Issue 20 - Food Thirangie Jayatilake

Appa

“remind / my taste buds that they are alive” – in this evocative poem, Thirangie Jayatilake relishes the foods that connect her to families and cities.

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