Some books arrive quietly but leave a lasting resonance. Mahmoud Khattab’s The Dog Sat Where We Parted is such a work, an unflinching yet poetic meditation on solitude, masculinity, and the inner landscape of military service in Egypt, where every able-bodied male with brothers is obliged to serve in the country’s military apparatus. Self-published outside […]| Dazed MENA
The story of the first time I went to a club is an excruciatingly clichéd Lebanese tale. The kind you’d expect a foreigner to concoct for their faux arthouse film. But alas, life in Lebanon does toe the line between the real, the fictitious, and the surreal. I grew up in a working class household […]| Dazed MENA
Cheb Mimo is a London-based DJ, selector, and NTS Radio resident with roots in Algeria and Tunisia. A lifelong collector of records and cassettes, he has a deep connection to North African music – especially Raï – which he champions through club nights and publications. His work centres around the analog art of hunting for […]| Dazed MENA
I honestly couldn’t even tell you what prompted me to explore the notion of griefbots and the associated ethics of engaging with them, just that something told me it would offer a very specific lens into the big question of Human Consciousness versus (and?) The Machine.How could something as tortured, yet also somehow tedious at […]| Dazed MENA
The past decade has blessed (cursed) us with many safe spaces, nightlife being the prominent one. Many social establishments now have extensive manifestos whereby they host events ‘catered’ to specific communities. The twinks vs dolls cigarette smoking competition or emo night: hijab edition—the list goes on and on. In the ruins of a saturated and […]| Dazed MENA
Driss Bennis is the founder and operator of the Moroccan imprint Casa Voyager, developing one of the most distinctive sonic and visual identities in electronic music over the past decade. Also known for his OCB project, Bennis has released music on Metroplex Records, arguably the world’s first-ever and longest-running techno label. Today, he’s created a […]| Dazed MENA
While most brands are busy chasing the next new thing, Carhartt WIP continues to build on what it knows best, which is durability and work culture. Its Fall/Winter 2025 collection captures that approach perfectly, balancing practical materials with a darker, richer palette and silhouettes that are ready for the chillier weather.| Dazed MENA
Youth and pop culture provocateurs spanning the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and Central Asia, championing fashion, music, art, film, politics and ideas from the MENA region and beyond| Dazed MENA
A renowned British Muslim journalist with decades of experience sits in the centre of a circle, inside a warehouse, surrounded by twenty far-right Americans. One by one, they spit their “opinions” at him. One proudly declares that he has no problems identifying as a fascist. Another tells him to “go back” to where he came […]| Dazed MENA
Long before hunger lays claim to the body, it loosens the scaffolding of language, erasing clarity, dismantling rhythm, and leaving behind the fragile debris of thought. What begins as a coherent paragraph soon dissolves into fragments, until all that remains is the involuntary tremor of a mind too starved to hold meaning. And so, before my […]| Dazed MENA
You can buy a “pashmina” for $10 online. Soft, pastel shawls stitched with machine-perfect paisleys, tassels dangling from the edges. On TikTok, influencers model glossy “pashmina” hijabs sourced from Shein. In downtown Amman, market stalls display mass-produced shawls stamped with stickers reading “Authentic Kashmiri” and simultaneously “Made in India.” But behind the label, something deeper […]| Dazed MENA
Rahim Rabia's journey began where many of our own did: Tumblr. As you scroll through his body of work, each image evokes a striking language reminiscent of a film still. They prompt the viewer to ask, Who is this character, and what is their story? The self-taught Algerian photographer, now based in Paris, has crafted a body of work that combines emotional intimacy with a cinematic sensibility, often capturing spontaneous and authentic moments from everyday life.| Dazed MENA
The GirlA form, an echo, a praxis. Not bound by age, biology, or identity, but by affect. She is pink-hued resistance, algorithmic surrender, psychic infrastructure. She exists in the temporal space “before”, yet produced endlessly in the now. Almost always.| Dazed MENA
That’s what DJ Haram said, deadpan into the mic, right after cutting the music mid-set. No fade. No transition.| Dazed MENA
WIP Magazine Issue 11 lands with a new installation launched in Turkey| Dazed MENA
Michelle Alozie knows how to hold multiple positions at once, literally and figuratively. A forward at her club, Houston Dash, a defender for Nigeria’s Super Falcons, and a trained medical professional working part-time as a cancer research technician in Texas in between, Alozie is a multi-hyphenate with a rigorous and intuitive playbook. In a world that often demands women simplify themselves to be legible, Alozie’s approach, like that of the rest of her teammates on Nigeria's national t...| Dazed MENA
In the hushed geometries of Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, amid the heavy silences of history and the noise of global turmoil, Chalisée Naamani's new exhibition Octogone opens like a quiet invocation. The Franco-Iranian artist, whose work consistently straddles the personal and the political, has composed a spatial and symbolic reverie—at once installation, procession, and arena—where bodies are sculpted, histories are contested, and clothing becomes both witness and weapon.| Dazed MENA
Joe Echegini loves music but isn’t particularly concerned with noise. A midfielder at Paris Saint-Germain and a forward for Nigeria’s Super Falcons, she plays with a clarity that belies the chaos, bringing a deliberate simplicity to the game, unbothered by distraction or pressure.| Dazed MENA
In Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death, Arthur Jafa’s seminal 2016 film, the artist oscillates between a spectrum of viral clips, archival footage, and cultural fragments, capturing the exaltation and complexities of Black American life. Transmissions of heavyweights from Michael Jordan to Malcolm X to Serena Williams, all interpolate with frequencies of Black struggle, Black triumph, and Black joy.| Dazed MENA
From the moment Nadah El Shazly released her first full-length album, Ahwar (2017), she was positioned as one of the most distinctive voices to emerge from Cairo’s underground music scene in the past decade - but “voice” in this case needs clarification. El Shazly is often introduced as a singer, but that framing quickly falls apart under scrutiny.| Dazed MENA
