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How Beirut’s creative scene is imagining a new future for its city

As a creative capital and cultural hub for the SWANA region and the world, Beirut is home to visionary artists...

Link List #112: Feminist punk, the 58th Venice Biennale, and a Beirut-based photo journal exploring queer Arabic culture

Link List #112: Feminist punk, the 58th Venice Biennale, and a Beirut-based photo journal exploring queer Arabic culture Hopefully you...

Beirut

Beirut chef Wael Lazkani on Lebanon's rich culinary spirit

Wael Lazkani opens the door and salutes us with a bright, beaming smile. Wearing a crisp white buttoned up shirt...

Meet the FvF Contributors: Natasha Jane Stallard from Beirut

One of FvF’s longtime contributors from the Middle East is Natasha Jane Stallard. Initially living in East London, this driven...

Meet the FvF Contributors: Tanya Traboulsi from Beirut

Austrian-born photographer Tanya Traboulsi is our rock in the Middle East. She introduced us to the Lebanese capital Beirut and...

Music

A year of change, creativity, and collaborations: 2022 in review

Around this time last year, we asked ourselves how creativity could inspire new, more sustainable ways of living, how it...

Friends of Friends Submission Guide

Our Editorial Mission Inspiring change through creativity FF exists to celebrate and showcase the ideas of a global creative community...

Publishing

At the invitation of Christian Boros, co-founder of Distanz publishing and our great friend, Friends of Friends published their first...

Visual Escapism for a New Reality Pt. 3: Through their eyes

Visual Escapism for a New Reality Pt. 3: Through their eyes At a time when we’re stuck inside staring at...

Music

FvF Mixtape #156: Malena Zavala

“I was taken from my homeland and grew up in a different country that is the opposite in every way.”...

London Art

Huck Magazine shines a light on emerging subcultures in unlikely places

“Essentially, we’re inspired by people who make things happen for themselves, who reject the status quo through transgressive acts that...

Helsinki Art

Leaving room for surprises, Finnish designer Tero Kuitunen succeeds in combining work and play

Filled with relief, Tero Kuitunen relaxes in his tiny ceramic workspace gazing at the ceramic cones he has just picked...

Naples Design

Celebrating a new generation of makers, a female-led Italian design fair thinks outside the artist’s booths

In the historical center of Naples in the south of Italy, Domitilla Dardi and Emilia Petruccelli are creating Edit Napoli,...

Link List #100: Women surfers, Al writers, and cultural ideas of virginity

Hopefully you enjoyed the reads from this week’s Link List, but if you’ve still got an internet itch to scratch,...

British Columbia Photography

Taking to the slopes with Canadian photographer and ski enthusiast Kari Medig

Taking to the slopes with Canadian photographer and ski enthusiast Kari Medig Capturing the unexpected diversity of the ski community...

Dubai Photography

Going beyond stereotypes of the United Arab Emirates with photographer Alex Atack

But, despite this being the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, people are curiously absent from the search...

Amsterdam Art

Kuwaiti artist Monira al Qadiri on Japanese cartoons and the body as art

“Of course he was my favorite character. I saw myself in him, and wanted to be him.” Monira is speaking...

New York City Art

Inside Pioneer Works, New York's collaborative wonderland for the arts and sciences

It is, without sounding hyperbolic, an organization multifaceted with creativity and underpinned by iconoclastic entrepreneurship, with curiosities that beckon around...

The FvF Year 2014 in Numbers and Pictures

2015 is just around the corner, so we’re looking back at what we’ve done this year, we checked the numbers...

Jounieh

Mark Aoun

The distance from his apartment in Jounieh to the highway is about 50 meters. From there it takes 30 minutes...