I Came for Couscous is a journal that offers Arab creative minds a platform to express stories beyond their geographical borders with flair and panache. Surrounded by a team of journalists, writers, photographers, musicians, filmmakers, designers, poets, and illustrators, the magazine presents the words of individuals who — connected and curious — investigate the world around them with creativity and freedom.
The publication is more than a magazine. It is a human journey and a state of mind that promotes curiosity, openness, mixing, and sharing, reflecting the diversity that makes up and nourishes us. A contrasting place, beautiful and flawed, it opens a fresh window on other latitudes and disrupts the certainties and accepted conceptions that limit how we see the world. As a supporter of Solutions Journalism, I Came for Couscous participates in social and solidarity initiatives, using journalism, art, and culture as instruments for education, development, and social integration.
The name is an invitation — warm, hospitable, and disarming. You came for the couscous, but you stayed for the conversation, the music, the stories, and the realisation that the world is more connected than any border suggests.