When the 2011 riots broke out, they were widely dismissed as plain criminality. A new work by artist Baff Akoto tells a different story – and shows how the civil unrest implicates us all

Global capital's favourite food delivery platform felt like a lifeline during the pandemic. But from dark kitchens to big data, its long-term path to profitability raises some troubling questions

Ten years after the revolution, Tahrir Square is sanitised, the dictatorship in place harsher than the one it replaced. But while the revolutionary generation came from ruins, it is not ruined

For the London Review of Books - Dystopian realities in Sisi's Egypt

For Granta magazine - A weird relationship with a wondrous city gets weirder still

A series of investigations into how our public spaces are increasingly privately-owned and policed by corporations

From the Isle of Dogs to Tower Bridge, just how much of the celebrated Thames riverside is actually open to the general public - and what does it tell us about money, politics and space in contemporary London?

A megacity turns itself inside out

Prising open Egypt's cracks