Dalia Al-Dujaili

4 days ago | gqmiddleeast.com | Dalia Al-Dujaili

In neon-lit barbershops across Iraq, transformation takes shape as both ritual and rebellion. Towering hairdos, glossy skin, sculpted brows. When we think of Iraqi men’s hairstyles, we might cringe. With the amount of hair spray and gel needed to keep them in shape, the towering jet black manes could be a major fire hazard. We love to hate them. Across the Arab internet, they’re a punchline – memeified, parodied and obsessed over.

1 week ago | 1854.photography | Dalia Al-Dujaili

All images © Elizar Veerman The Dutch-born Moluccan artist is interested in how class, rather than race, creates solidarity among immigrant communities through tender images of young men in EuropeWhen I call Elizar Veerman, he’s at his father’s house in Maluku, an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia, far from where he grew up in the Netherlands.

1 week ago | 1854.photography | Dalia Al-Dujaili

All images © Theodoros Gennitsakis The founder of PRESSURE presents glossy fashion photography with the texture of everyday life in his zine ΧΑΟΣFirst presented during his debut photography exhibition in Athens in April, 2025, ΧΑΟΣ, a 48-page, full-color zine featuring the photography of PRESSURE founder and creative director Theodoros Gennitsakis, is an intimate body of work.

3 weeks ago | 1854.photography | Dalia Al-Dujaili

xxxxIn 1969, The Beatles song Come Together was released as part of the band’s new album Abbey Road. The same year, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were leading bed-ins; non-violent protests against the Vietnam War. It was a devastating war that sparked opposition worldwide, on a massive scale. It seems we have learned little from history, as brutal wars in Ukraine, Gaza and beyond, endure. Nations and their people stand divided, ‘truth’ is no longer an absolute term.

3 weeks ago | 1854.photography | Dalia Al-Dujaili

Installation image of Refractions: Tasweer Project Awards, Gallery 46 at Katara Cultural Village The third edition of the festival in Doha, Qatar is anchored by As I Lay Between Two Seas, which depicts identity as a fluid processTasweer Photo Festival specialises in West Asian and North African image-makers; it’s a noble cause.