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The Music Issue
[split] From Ethio-jazz to Nubian retro-pop, Iraqi choubi to Egyptian anti-folk, Brownbook’s latest mixtape celebrates the artists, record labels and regions featured in our new issue. 1. Alsarah...
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The Trans Asia Express
Continue reading [split] Passengers aboard the weekly 10.35am Ankara to Tehran Trans Asia Express begin that lesson as they board. Now Turkey’s diplomatic capital, Ankara was a dusty rail town before...
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The Mosque in the Snow
Continue reading [split] These minarets frame the worship hall, which is accessed via a main entrance made up of a series of expanding triangles. The entire body of the mosque is built according to a...
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The Man from Momo
Continue reading [split] But with tea and the burnoose, perched on multi-coloured chairs with high backs scrolled into flaunting arabesques, it isn’t. And Mazouz is immune to the weather, it seems. ‘I...
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Prison Break
Continue reading [split] Weary of how the depressing eyesore negatively impacted the surrounding urban fabric, locals urged their governors to intervene. Eventually, in 2008, the Tehran Municipality...
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Looking for Palestine
Continue reading [split] Born in America to a Lebanese mother and Palestinian father – the late, great Edward Said – like other daughters of professors from nearby Columbia University, Said grew up on...
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Cargo Collective
Continue reading [split] ‘It was the first of its kind where contemporary art was shown in Tripoli in a modern setting,’ says Najla’a el-Ageli of Noon Arts, a private foundation that deals with...
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Mdou Moctar
[split] Tuareg musician Mdou Moctar's split tape with Porches. frontman Aaron Maine juxtaposes the sounds of the Niger desert with those of New York's 'sad pop' scene. 'Asshet Akal' is one of Moctar's...
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The Little Screen
Continue reading [split] Sara Sehnaoui, who conceived the idea behind Dawawine three years ago, sits on a vintage armchair opposite Abed Kobeissy, a musicologist and musician also involved in the...
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Ya Bahr
Continue reading [split] For Al-Mulaifi, focusing his dissertation on the arcane music of Kuwait’s pearl divers was about a lot more than satisfying doctoral programmes’ supposed lust for the obscure...
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Honey Honey Honey
Continue reading [split] Al Aufi was born into the bee business. He grew up in a village of less than 50 blood relations who all earn their daily bread by either shepherding livestock, like his uncle...
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The Prince of Agadez
Continue reading [split] ‘Beside the fact that “Purple Rain” is stylistically amazing, it’s also a very universal story. It’s Joseph Campbell's hero as guitar player. The idea of a remake was really...
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Cosmetic Surgery
Continue reading [split] Twenty kilometres south of the Sudanese capital in Soba, the Salam Centre is the only specialised and free-of-charge medical institution for miles. It serves not only the...
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The King of Ethio-Jazz
Continue reading [split] There’s a timelessness to Astatke’s music. A song like ‘Yègellé Tezeta’ sounds just as fresh when used in Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Broken Flowers’, or on a 45 in 1972, as it does...
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