Features

Top 10 New myths of Zionism

Israel was built on a set of pretexts that the historical record has substantively swept aside: A land without a people for a people without a land, the fairness of the UN partition plan and the Arab governments ordering the Palestinians to leave in

The Reluctant Jordanian

One-time NBA prospect Rasheim Wright has been greeted with controversy and criticism – not least from Wright himself

Rebel MC

When Shadia Mansour, the First Lady of Arab Hip Hop headed for New York, we asked Ridwan Adhami to photograph her in Palestinian dress

The politics of torture

After rape, beatings, electrocution and illegal detention for nearly four years, Abu Omar knows the painful truth of CIA tactics in the War on Terror

Yeast is East

Having been a war photographer and an airline owner, Mazen Hajjar adds another boys’ own career to his CV – beer maker

Captain’s log

Captain Abu Raed is the first Jordanian feature-length movie in half a century – and writer and director Amin Matalqa gives his account of getting it in the can

Drive-by shooting

When rappers in New York want their picture taken, they go to Ridwan “Ridz”, a young Syrian who is carving out a niche as the scene’s most innovative photographer

All singing, all dancing

Not content to be a successful model, beauty queen and TV star, Nesrin Zreik is relaunching a music career on the back of some highly provocative videos

Happy Jack

Without question the most dominant actor in Hollywood in the last three decades, Jack Nicholson looks back on the years of plenty

Out of the shadows

By swapping Hamburg for West London in August, the Dutch-born Moroccan Khalid Boulahrouz stepped into the biggest football story in the world