[ Zawia is an English & Arabic publication & collaborative events on architecture, design & Urbanism ] ■ ZAWIA is an idea, born in a time of significant change, to bridge years and layers of intellectual distancing and isolation. It is a trial to provide channels and open new possibilities for a mutual constructive dialogue within its discipline, a trial to re-establish links of relevancy and necessity between the local and the global community. It is a trial to cope with and absorb a powerful wave of change with all its energies and promises. ■ [Zawia is the point in which one-line stops to change its direction and path][ZAWIA (Angle or ‘Corner’); is a geometrical form where two rays meet at a vertex.] [ZAWIA is also a historical building typology from the Arab Islamic era, originally referring to a corner used for gathering and general education in small mosques with no minaret or ‘minbar’. The act of ZAWIA, in Arabic (inzewa’), refers to the action of gathering and grouping of peo