Ayesha Malik

PHOTO: Amina Akhtar

The lovely desert in Saudi Arabia

PHILADELPHIA SKATEBOARDS, 3 Wise Men by Rami Afifi

JOY DIVISION, Arabic Font Tee by Brendan Donnelly

SUPREME, Arabic Pullover

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PUSH Tunisia - A Skateboard ‘Artivism’ film - by theBedouins

PHOTOS: Hassan Hajjaj

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PHOTOS: Hassan Hajjaj

PHOTO: Andrew McConnell

LEAVING GAZA

19 year old Ali Ayrhim kneels down to pray at home before he goes surfing. His surf board is propped up against the wall behind him.

A lovely photo series on Palestinian Surfers in Gaza.

PHOTOS: Lynsey Addario

THE NEW SAUDI LIFE

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On Sunday September 25, 12011, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Sunday granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a puritanical kingdom that practices strict separation of the sexes, including banning women from driving. Lynsey Addario takes a look at this traditionally closed society and specifically the modern city of Jeddah which has been opening up. Saudi’s flood the shopping malls, cafe’s and even lakes in search of recreation and fun. Though still governed by tradition and cultural taboo, women are holding jobs and some even daring to drive.

PHOTOS: Olivia Arthur

SAUDI ARABIA

“The first things I saw in Saudi were the big empty roads and houses with impossibly high walls.  Everything seemed to be happening somewhere else, out of sight, behind closed doors.”

I really love this series by photographer Olivia Arthur.  Check out more of this work and order the book on her website, www.oliviaarthur.com.

PHOTO: Christoph Draeger

Boxing Day Tsunami Survivors, Dhuvaafaru, Maldives, 2011

Series of 31 framed photographs, Lambda Prints, 35 x 52.5 cm each, Edition of 3+1

PHOTO: Ayesha Malik

FREE ALL PALESTINE, 42nd Street on Broadway, New York City, September 15, 2011

A group of Hasidic Jewish Men stand in support of Palestine in hopes of a better future for Palestinian’s and Israeli’s

FILM: Ayesha Malik

WOMAN IN NATURE المرأة في الطبيعة

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A merging of abstraction and reality in a document of a woman in nature by the sea.  She transcends between a tangible human state and a mystical existence.  Pairing themes of mother earth and the natural environment with this woman intends to remove extraneous elements from the woman and the abaya, creating a sense of mystery, humanity, and understanding all at once; an expression and celebration of this woman and all women, free of inhibiting and judgmental ideologies.

Inspired by and in homage to Shirin Neshat

Shahram Entekhabi / Shirin Neshat / Shadi Ghadirian / Fulla Doll / Boushra Al Mutawakel / Julie Adnan / Olivia Arthur / Abbas

Abbas KUWAIT. Kuwait city. Kuwait woman with an American flag and a portrait of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. 1991.