SceneHome • 12th July 2026 The Story Behind Banksy’s Hotel With "The Worst View in the World" In 2005, a stranger asked a Bethlehem guide to show him around Palestine. He only found out months later he'd been hosting Banksy. Then, they built a hotel together.
CairoScene • 2nd July 2026 Director Hussein Mardini's Anger is His Engine The 23-year-old films shaabi dance like ballet and its love stories like cinema, and the whole scene is watching.
SceneSportsME • 16th June 2026 How Rima Abu Rahma Keeps Gaza's Boxing Women Fighting She took on her own society to build Gaza Boxing Women, facing down threats to burn it to the ground. Now she keeps it alive from thousands of miles away.
SceneNowSports • 2nd June 2026 How Squash Dreamers is Changing Refugee Girls’ Futures in Jordan In Amman, Squash Dreamers is helping refugee and underserved girls not only graduate from high school, but step onto international squash courts and into universities abroad.
SceneHome • 25th May 2026 What Four Toilets Reveal About Palestinian Refugee Camps An architect returned to the camp he grew up to trace the evolution of its architecture, from post-Nakba tents to multi-storey buildings, through one of its most overlooked everyday spaces.
CairoScene • 20th May 2026 Gaza Sunbirds Race Towards Freedom in Cairo After recovering from amputations in Egyptian hospitals, three men met Gaza Sunbirds' Captain Abu Ali. Now, they are training to represent Palestine at the 2028 Paralympics.
SceneHome • 10th May 2026 Beirut’s Albergo Hotel Was Built Upside Down Built from the rooftop down, this Beirut hotel continued evolving through years of disruption. Now, it invites guests to experience a different one of its 56 distinct rooms on every stay.
SceneHome • 30th April 2026 Green Rock Rebuilds Homes With LEGO Bricks Made From Gaza’s Rubble In Gaza, one local initiative is turning 60 million tonnes of debris into something usable: bricks for shelter.
CairoScene • 29th April 2026 Yasmeen Abouremeleh Serves Palestinian Olive Oil Wrapped in Hot Pink 30-year-old Yasmeen Abouremeleh put Palestinian olive oil on American shelves in neon packaging, giving people a new way to connect with Palestine beyond the news.
CairoScene • 28th April 2026 WATCH: Full Video of Plestia Alaqad's Book Talk at Diwan Plestia Alaqad commemorates one year of 'The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience' at Diwan Bookstore, in conversation with Laila Shadid.
CairoScene • 20th April 2026 The Anger of Egypt: Omar El Shoubashy Paints Faces Up the Nile A year-long journey across Egypt reveals faces shaped by place, pressure and memory, as one painter turns fleeting encounters into layered portraits charged with emotion.
CairoScene • 15th April 2026 Inside the NGO Leading Support for Displaced Palestinians in Egypt INARA took CairoScene on a tour inside their three main centers, where they provide education, psychosocial support, and medical care to thousands of displaced Palestinian families in Egypt.
SceneHome • 6th April 2026 When Historic Buildings are Restored, Who Pays to Maintain Them? Restoring heritage is only half the story—what happens after the scaffolding comes down? From Palestine to Egypt, SceneHome traces who funds maintenance once the work is done.
CairoScene • 23rd March 2026 Sara Shamma Rebuilds Syria’s Destroyed Palmyra at the Venice Biennale Syria is returning to the Venice Biennale with an installation that reflects both the destruction of its heritage during the civil war and hopes for reconstruction.
CairoScene • 21st March 2026 This Foundation is Leading the Fight Against Eating Disorders in Egypt Neveen Radwan started the Ameera Foundation to provide eating disorder education and care in Egypt, and to prevent what happened to her daughter from happening to anyone else.
CairoScene • 18th March 2026 Plestia Alaqad is Moving Away from Headlines For the past two years, 24-year-old Plestia Alaqad has been learning how to report on Gaza from afar, while also discovering who she is beyond journalism.
SceneStyled • 15th March 2026 Q&A: Designer Zeighn Talks Identity, Vogue & 'The Palestinian Wedding "Mama, Baba look, Vogue!" — SceneStyled caught up with fashion designer Zeighn Abu Al-Teen to discuss the making of her thesis look ‘The Palestinian Wedding' and using fashion to platform the cause.
CairoScene • 3rd March 2026 Ex-UNRWA Teachers Bring Palestinian Children Back to Class in Cairo The Fikra Initiative is restoring in person education to displaced Palestinian children in Cairo after two years without school.
SceneNowSaudi • 4th February 2026 Examining What Technology Makes Us Feel at the Diriyah Biennale Phones that speak, the first Arabic computer and rapid change in Saudi Arabia. Diriyah Biennale 2026 asks how technology reshapes what we feel, remember and carry as the world keeps moving.
CairoScene • 4th February 2026 Ekhlas Al-Azzah Teaches Arabic From Her Wheelchair in Palestine Volunteers travel from across the globe to care for Ekhlas Al-Azzah in one of the smallest Palestinian refugee camps in the world. In exchange, she teaches them Arabic and about life in the West Bank.
