The magazine is published quarterly and addresses politics, economics, culture, and society in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia as well as the Muslim world more generally.
The zenith editorial team carried research into the lives of Egyptians and Tunisians following the fall of dictatorial rule,[4] which culminated in the publication of Diktatur bewältigen (Confronted Past) in 2013.
Editor-in-chief Daniel Gerlach commented on the occasion by stating that zenith's capability to survive and grow in an age of intense competition and general decline of print media was based on its ability to successfully cultivate a niche in the market and curate an approach to reporting on the Middle East that was both distant and empirical as well as empathetic.
Its editorial board includes Moritz Behrendt, Asiem El Difraoui, Yasemin Ergin,[15] Daniel Gerlach,[16] Christian Meier,[17][18] Veit Raßhofer and Jörg Schäffer.
The magazine views itself as a platform for young, critical, alternative journalism on a region whose image in the world is significantly marked by biased and ideologically entrenched reporting.