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.
Posts tagged culture
From Ramallah to Jerusalem, roaming wine seller, circa 1930. Archive.
قصيدة ستي أم عطا - تميم البرغوثي
“الفرعي” حفل موسيقي
طارق أبو كويك يقدم “الفرعي” لأول مرة في فلسطين، وهو عرض لأغانٍ تتطرّق إلى قضايا الحب والدين والسياسة، مسلطّاً الضوء على الانقسامات الطبقيّة، والسياسات النيوليبرالية السائدة في فلسطين والأردن على حد سواء. يقدّم “الفرعي” عرضه الحميم واللمّاح بمزيج من الكلام المغنى والمحكي المنظوم على موسيقى الراب. مثيراً لدى الجمهور أسئلة غير متوقعة من خلال أفكاره جريئة.
طارق أبو كويك عازف إيقاع وكاتب أغاني يتخذ من ضفتي نهر الأردن، حيث ينتمي، نقطة انطلاقه. “الفرعي” بالعربية هو الذي يقع في الهامش بخلاف المتن، وهو ما اختاره عنوانا لمشروعه في موسيقى الراب.
Tareq Abu Kweik presents “El Far3i” for the first time in Palestine, an acoustic set that moves between stories of love, religion and politics, while protesting class divides and neo-liberal policies plaguing both Jordan and Palestine. A combination of melodic singing and spoken words that break into rap verses, “El Far3i” is an intimate and witty performance that teases audiences with unexpected questions and daring statements.
A percussionist and lyricist, Tareq Abu Kweik takes the banks of the River Jordan, his home, as his starting point. “El Far3i”—meaning “secondary” in Arabic— is a metaphor for a voice from the margins or sidelines, which gives his solo rap project its name.
خلي الكاميرات تصور- طارق ابو كويك
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 dusty capital.
The excited chatter of the young artists gathered in the Raufa Hassan Gallery stops as they see Sharki’s face drop. A Yemeni security official is the caller. Rumours have been swirling that her art gallery is actually an illicit nightclub, they say. Officers will be paying her a visit soon.
Meanwhile, Omr Sa’d - the harmonica player for 3 Meters Away - the activist band in residence at the gallery - notices his own phone ringing. Sa’d already knows the call is bad news: the unknown number is a member of his large, conservative family who is threatening his life for playing rock music.
Finally, Sharki hangs up her phone, looking daunted…continue on AlJazeera
Edward Said, Marcel Khalife, Mahmoud Darwish.
Open Sesame: Memories from a War-Torn Generation →
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 edition of the American children’s TV series Sesame Street, on which one of the children was to appear that day, but never did.
Open Sesame captures many similar moments of loss and anxiety that had a profound effect on the generation: the separation of childhood friends, the long and unexpected drive to a safer, though stranger place, and the dispersal of families across various countries and time zones. For these children….continue on Jadaliyya
ن و القلم و مايسطرون..اللهم اجعل مانكتبه شفيعا لنا لا علينا
