DAZED Middle East

2 months ago | dazed.me | Sarra Alayyan

Posted in Opinion, Film “America will bomb your country until there’s nothing left, then come back 20 years later and make a movie about how sad their soldiers got from doing it” – Frankie Boyle Since it premiered a couple of weeks ago, Warfare, the latest movie from indie darling studio A24, has been continuously heralded as a searing anti-war film. A “scrupulously realistic” meditation on the horrors of combat. A visceral masterpiece committed to “total, unfiltered authenticity“. Critics...

2 months ago | dazed.me | Sarra Alayyan

Back in 2021, after a year of pandemic, I was, like most,  fully sluiced in technological fluid, and I started thinking about the problem of engaging with the material world through a social media timeline.

2 months ago | dazed.me | Sarra Alayyan

In 2001, Raf Simons adorned the runway with keffiyehs for his “Riot! Riot! Riot!” Autumn/Winter collection. Nicolas Ghesquière incorporated a keffiyeh in his Balenciaga’s 2007 Fall/Winter “Traveller” collection. That same year, Urban Outfitters pioneered a loving-hipster trend, which, for one reason or another, saw keffiyehs lining its shelves and, as a result, had Tumblr dashboards flooded with the indie drift.

2 months ago | dazed.me | Sarra Alayyan

Gaza is both a battleground and a treasure trove. Under the Strip, layers of archaeological strata bear witness to a millennia of history. Each stratum preserves the remnants of civilizations that have risen and fallen: Canaanite, Philistine, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, and Ottoman. Just a few feet beneath the rubble, these layers preserve traces of those who came before. They record centuries of conquest, trade, and daily life.

2 months ago | dazed.me | Sarra Alayyan

Posted in Fashion,   Imran Amed, founder of The Business of Fashion, has spent the last decade tracing the fault lines in an industry obsessed with legacy capitals.