Maitha AlSuwaidi 4/12/21 Maitha AlSuwaidi 4/12/21

Umm al-Duwais (and Other Notable Female Jinn)

Maitha AlSuwaidi interlaces childhood memories in the UAE watching horror films, with a female jinn figure looming in the mythical tales pervading her life, and comes to realizations about the demonization of women in society

Lorelei Bacht 4/12/21 Lorelei Bacht 4/12/21

surrendering

A graceful narrative list poem by Lorelei Bacht

Cody Samson 4/12/21 Cody Samson 4/12/21

Advent Vista

With custom sound and audio, this series incorporates video taken at various stops along a trip across the Southwestern United States; using Machine Learning neural network, images were strung together to create a series of morphing landscapes, almost as surreal as the landmarks they were made to mimic

Louise Gerodias 4/12/21 Louise Gerodias 4/12/21

Afterlives

Haiku columnist Louise Gerodias spins poetry out of gaps and absences

Zoe Jane Patterson 4/12/21 Zoe Jane Patterson 4/12/21

Epiphanies Galore Typing and Photocopying

Zoe Jane Patterson snakes through a tunnel with us into the magical realist realms of Abu Dhabi

Seema Al Abdulhai 4/12/21 Seema Al Abdulhai 4/12/21

Carmen's Doll

تستكشف سيما آل عبد الحي قصة أوبرا كارمن والمعاني الكامنة فيها. من خلال عملها الفني تستكشف قضايا محورية، أهمها الحرية

Faisal AlKheriji 4/12/21 Faisal AlKheriji 4/12/21

TIME

Self-taught Saudi artist Faisal Abdulaziz AlKheriji adapts and paints real TIME magazine covers to project his own commentary

Aditi Patwari 4/12/21 Aditi Patwari 4/12/21

Dubai Darbaar

This textile series by Dubai-based designer Aditi Patwari explores the Islamic influences in Dubai's traditional spaces as well as the city's mix of cultures and customs, manifesting innovation through structure, and drawing inspiration from the Islamic Art philosophy that a single motif, if repeated multiple times, can create the entire universe

Nahla Tabbaa 4/12/21 Nahla Tabbaa 4/12/21

The Diary of An Isolated Cook

UAE-based artist Nahla Tabbaa offers a set of illustrations commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation as part of the second iteration of the publication Corniche

Andrew Riad 4/12/21 Andrew Riad 4/12/21

En(gulf)ed

In this pensive marble of a poem, Andrew Riad destablilizes the "I" on the tightrope between two cultures and identities

João Victor Bolan 4/12/21 João Victor Bolan 4/12/21

La Goutte d'Or

João Bolan captures the "little Africa of Paris", named La Goutte d'Or, in the city's 18th arrondissment; the immigrant-heavy area has long been experiencing gentrification, high crime rates, and various other social issues, often depicted as an "undesirable" place in Paris

Fatima Al Jarman 4/12/21 Fatima Al Jarman 4/12/21

Leaves

Fatima Al Jarman offers a fiction piece set in the UAE, as short and powerful as a whisper running through a school hall

Sreerag Jyothish 4/12/21 Sreerag Jyothish 4/12/21

Eulogy for my brother who made it home

In this experimental, enjambed poem, Sree mobilizes the life, surroundings and vernaculars of a young boy in the UAE

Susanne Slavick 4/12/21 Susanne Slavick 4/12/21

Ghost Ships

Susanne Slavick examines the refugee crisis, particularly journeys taken on water, through her artworks and writing

Rebecca Bell 4/12/21 Rebecca Bell 4/12/21

history for worms

Rebecca Bell "waits for the girl of the future" in this pastoral lyric that plunges into the soil of history

Awatef Al Safwan 4/12/21 Awatef Al Safwan 4/12/21

The Heritage of Qatif

تأخذنا لوحات عواطف آل صفوان، إلى طفولة سعيدة في القطيف، حيث تكشف أجمل ذكرياتها، وعادات وتقاليد المنطقة

Ayah Rashid 4/12/21 Ayah Rashid 4/12/21

We Can’t Afford the Price Tag on Affordable, Ethical Fashion Brands

Sustainable fashion has so much potential, but remains inaccessible to many, with cost-prohibitive clothing and questionable business practices. How we can do better in the fashion industry to help both our social and physical environements? Our style odyssey writer Ayah Rashid explains

Mahmood Al Zadjali 4/12/21 Mahmood Al Zadjali 4/12/21

Distinctly Omani

In this short photo series, Mahmood Al Zadjali explores contemporary Omani identity

Jake Gill 4/12/21 Jake Gill 4/12/21

Home is where the heART is

London-based photographer Jake Gill maps his changing awarenesses and understandings of loneliness and home in this photo project, amid the ongoing pandemic

Mary Senier 4/12/21 Mary Senier 4/12/21

Building Bridges with My Body

TW: eating disorder. Mary Senier wields and manipulates poetic form like a body in this poem on wanting to become anew