May 2013
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Doha Film Institute Unveils Expanded Film Grants... →
Doha Film Institute (DFI) today unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival a…
Pay attention to Theeb by Naji Abu Nowar.
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The Gaza Kitchen - The Mosaic Rooms ... →
Food for the soul for the London crowd. Join Anissa Helou in conversation with the authors of The Gaza Kitchen Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt at The Mosaic Rooms, May 8th.
April 2013
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Ali Al Jabri Exhibition Design →
The Ali Jabri Foundation, was an exhibition design opportunity for the late Jordanian artist Ali Jabri. The permanent gallery was opened in 2010.
The exhibit has since been dismantled.
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“After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. (via oliviacirce)
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Movies →
ANA is back for it’s second year with a pick of 12 award-winning films from a bevy of exciting Arab directors working today. May 30 - June 5, 2013, NY.
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Annie sakkab - Social Documentary Photography and... →
Toronto Portrait and Social Documentary Photographer, Photojournalist
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How a drink downed by Arab mystics went global →
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Tate brings Choucair into the canon →
Tate Modern is showcasing a major retrospective of Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair’s work.
Works from the 97-year-old artist, who is a pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East, are on show for the first time in the UK.
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Safe space for art strikes a chord in Yemen →
AlJazeera:
Sanaa, Yemen - Yemeni entrepreneur Taysir al-Sharki reaches into her self-designed purse embellished in sitara fabric - a pattern usually reserved for old women’s dresses - to pull out her ringing mobile phone.
But an old woman she is not. The 42-year-old Sharki greets the caller while pouring tea for the dozen artists gathered in her vast new art gallery in Yemen’s...
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Open Sesame: Memories from a War-Torn Generation →
Noura Alsager on Jadaliyya:
Through a small collection of objects, maps, letters, and photographs, Open Sesame leads viewers back in time to 2 August 1990— the morning Iraq invades Kuwait. The exhibit pieces together the miscellaneous belongings of children at the time, whom curator Ola El-Khalidi refers to as the “Open Sesame” generation. “Open Sesame” is also the Arabic name for the pan-Arab...
March 2013
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At the Arab World Institute in Paris, the Khoury... →
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Anissa Helou's Koshari Recipe →
Mark Hix, The Independent:
Anissa Helou, the Middle Eastern cookery writer, invited me a few weeks back to taste her Egyptian dish of koshari. I knew nothing about this delicious dish but I was happy to try it as I am endlessly curious about adding new Middle Eastern recipes to my repertoire. Anissa is opening a takeaway called Koshari Street (kosharistreet.com) serving only this rice dish in...
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Attention: Incoming Freight →
by Oraib Toukan
In 1963 Jordanian and US bureaucrats strolled around Jerash looking for the perfect column. Together they chose a 30-foot high marble column from one of the twelve complete columns that make up the temple of Artemis. Artemis was the goddess of hunting, and was known to assist women in procreation. The pillar was to be mounted in the Jordanian Pavilion for the 1964-65 World Trade...
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A Room of His Own: The “History” of the Barber of... →
By Dana Sajdi:
Sometime towards the middle of the eighteenth century, a barber in Damascus did something apparently unprecedented for a member of his profession: he decided to write a history. The transgression inscribed in this act is not, of course, the fact of the barber’s will to memory, but rather the barber’s choice of the form of this memory: namely, a chronicle of the events taking place...
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Visual art workshop in Ramallah this summer →
Summer Academy Ramallah:
Daily life in Palestine – 24/7 Palestine
Date: August, 13th – September, 3rd
Place: Ramallah – Episcopal Vocational Center
Instructors: Nabila Irshaid (Visual Artist) and Tobias Hammerle (Media Artist)
Nabila Irshaid offers her expertise in art in public space, participative art, art as a process and audio – visual concepts. She can provide her knowledge about the...
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February 2013
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Manual of Decolonization →
At Salottobuono:
Conceived within the frame of “Decolonizing Architecture: scenarios for the transformation of Israeli settlements”, a project by the London–Bethlehem based architectural studio of Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman. Decolonizing Architecture was originally conceptualized and its pilot stage produced in dialogue with Eloisa Haudenschild & Steve Fagin...
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Love your letters, they are your babies! →
Interview with Pascal Zoghbi, independent type designer at khatt.
Pascal Zoghbi is one of the young generation of Arab type designers. He has participated in two of the design research projects of the Khatt Foundation: ‘Typographic Matchmaking’ and ‘Typographic Matchmaking in the City’ respectively. This interview will focus on his Arabic type design—mainly work that was inspired by hand-made...
Sleeping on Stones selected for the Cairo Film...
nicoleballivian:
BintFilm project, Sleeping on Stones, was selected for the 2012 Cairo Film Connection at the Cairo International Film Festival, Dec 3-6th. The Cairo Film Connection features selected film projects in development and teams up the filmmaker with potential co-producers, funds and festival programmers. You can view more about it here: www.cairofilmconnection.com
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