Posts tagged history
A Room of His Own: The “History” of the Barber of Damascus (fl. 1762) →
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 in his own lifetime…..continue reading (pdf)
Representing Palestine at The Oscars 2013: 5 Broken Cameras director Emad Burnat, his wife Soreya, and son Jibreel.
At first I didn’t set out to be a collector. I was merely reacting to the historical and political events in my home Palestine, Jordan and the Arab world.” ~Widad Kawar
—
Last night in Amman, Widad Kawar inaugurated the Tiraz Centre, a wonderful home for Arab dress, as part of the Prince Claus award ceremony celebrating her remarkable work and collection of some 45 years. The museum has been beautifully created in a Kawar home building (#19 Riyad Al Mufleh Str) by interior designer Maha Kawar, and the blueprint exhibit by Syntax brings to life Widad’s lifetime labor of love. The Tiraz Centre is about the stories of our history and cultural heritage. It is about the stories of the women wearing their lifetime journeys. It is a home that stitches together the colorful and complex fabric of who we are, where we’ve been, and urges us to walk away reflecting deeply on where we’re going.
لانا السناوى ~ بوسات تاريخيه من السينما المصريه
h/t Mais Darawazah
Inspired by Giuseppe Tornatore’s Nuovo Cinema Paradiso scene finale.
youtube.com/watch?v=TflvNm22cpk
Music by Ennio Morricone
A walk through historic Arab Paris →
We are standing in the heart of the Latin Quarter of Paris. Famous landmarks, such as Nôtre Dame Cathedral, the Luxembourg Gardens, the Cluny Museum, the Panthéon and the Sorbonne are within blocks. Yet hidden in full view around us is another Paris that is often forgotten in the bustle: historic Arab Paris.
The Italians of Egypt
Documentary, 80 minutes.
Directed by: Sherif Fathy Salem
Synopsis:
The Italians were the oldest European community in Egypt and they had contributed greatly to its modernization. This important community paid a high price when Italy took part in WWII.
Crew:
Directed & Edited by: Sherif Fathy Salem
Written by: Ramona Di Marco & Sherif Fathy Salem
D.O.P: Ashraf Badraway, Fabrizio Tronchet & Alessandro Felici.
Music: Audio Network
Co Produced by: SPOT1.tv & Aljazeera documentary channel.
h/t @deenadajani
On "Liberation Art" and Revolutionary Aesthetics: An Interview with Samia Halaby →
June 22, 2012, Jadaliyya - In 2001, Samia Halaby independently published Liberation Art of Palestine, a detailed study of Palestinian art during the second half of the twentieth century. The first of its kind, Liberation Art is an English-language book that is based on dozens of interviews with artists who were integral to a movement that remains embedded in Palestinian visual culture. Halaby’s recognition of this specific school and her outlining of its creative parameters have been indispensable to the documentation of Palestinian art while indirectly providing a template for how the history of modern and contemporary Arab art should be considered—a history that has never been divorced from the political….continue at Jadaliyya
The Great Book Robbery - full film.
A multifaceted cultural heritage project with two major components: the documentary film, and the website which will grow into a multi-function platform. 70,000 Palestinian books were systematically “collected” by the newly born state of Israel during the 1948 war. The story of the “collected” books is at the heart of our film.
Syrian composer and pianist Malek Jandali with The Ludwig Symphony Orchestra. From the album Echoes from Ugarit, based on the oldest music notation in history.
