Articles tagged with: Arab
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Monday, 15 Apr, 2013
Lebanese artist Walid Raad rose to international acclaim in the early 2000s with The Atlas Group, established in Lebanon in 1999 with Raad as its only known member. The Atlas Group intended to “research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon.” In other words, like other post-civil war artists of his generation, this project formulated an attempt to work in response to the events of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), the effects of which still resonate with the Lebanese people. I...
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Saturday, 6 Apr, 2013
Last year’s Doha Tribeca film festival marked a tipping point for female Arab directors. From Rafea: Solar Mama, a sparky documentary about a Jordanian woman who trains to be a solar engineer, to Yema, an eerily beautiful film about fratricide and fundamentalism, the range and quality of female directed work was unprecedented. This spring, two London festivals— March’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival and the Bird’s Eye View Festival, which is on at the moment—have provided a fresh cha...
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Wednesday, 20 Mar, 2013
“Invest in whichever sector that could serve the young generation ... in the service sectors, like education, healthcare and coffee. We’re talking about frontier markets ... Ir...
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Wednesday, 6 Mar, 2013
The media scene was monolithic under Tunisia’s old government, while the public arena was characterized by the absence of politics. A news booth in Tunisia three years ago looked...
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Tuesday, 29 Jan, 2013
There is no census that would give us the exact number of Jewish people living in Egypt today. We do know, however, that during the British Mandate and under King Fuad I of Egypt, ...
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Tuesday, 18 Dec, 2012
Love of newspapers has a long history in the Middle East, where news publications first began appearing in the early nineteenth century, sometimes as government gazettes for pu...
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Thursday, 4 Oct, 2012
Following the overthrow of the corrupt Egyptian monarchy in 1952, a power struggle emerged between the coup’s two leaders, Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser. Eventually, Nas...
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Friday, 14 Sep, 2012
In partnership with the Dubai International Film Festival and the Arab-British Centre, “This week-long series of classic and contemporary cinema takes audiences on a journey of g...
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Friday, 31 Aug, 2012
Eighteen months after Mohammad Bouazizi set himself on fire, igniting region-wide uprisings, I am still coming across articles authored by Arab women lamenting the failure of these...
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Friday, 20 Jul, 2012
Art at the Mosaic Rooms
A solo show of the Egyptian artist Nermine Hammam at the Mosaic Rooms in London today, Friday. Featuring two of her recent works, Upekka and Unfold...
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