by Hrair
Posts tagged women
Annie sakkab - Social Documentary Photography and Photojournalism. - strip search →
Toronto Portrait and Social Documentary Photographer, Photojournalist
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.
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
سلمى الطرزي - دائرة الجحيم. عن التحرّش الجنسي والاغتصاب الجماعي في ميادين مصر وشوراعها
Salma El Tarzi - Circle of Hell. Sexual harassment and gang rape in Egyptian plazas and streets
كريمة عبود/ أول مصوّرة فلسطينية (1893- 1940)
من مواليد بيت لحم، نشأت في بيئة متعددة الثقافات واللغات، وكانت تجيد العربية والإنجليزية والألمانية. تزوجت في عمر السادسة والثلاثين، وأنجبت ابناً واحداً.
في دعاية لها في العام 1924 في جريدة الكرمل الحيفاوية، يرد ذكرها باعتبارها “المصورة الوطنية الوحيدة في فلسطين”، وأنها تعلمت هذه الحرفة على يد كبار المصورين في فلسطين. ويرد الحديث عن أن والدها أهداها كاميرا فوتوغرافية قبل أن تتجاوز العشرين من العمر.
ركزت عبود في الغالب على التقاط الصور الشخصية، ومع أننا نجد لها صوراً لبعض المناسبات العائلية، إلا أن المرجح أنها تعود لعائلتها الخاصة. كما أنها كانت تلتقط الصور لزبائنها في بيوتهم مع التقاط الخلفيات المناسبة، على خلاف محترفي التصوير في ذلك الوقت، الذين كانوا يستخدمون استديوهات لهذا الغرض. تحاكي كريمة عبود في صورها الشخصيات الفلسطينية في وجهها العفوي، ولم تكن شخصياتها تنتمي إلى طبقة الحكام أو الضباط أو الزعامات الدينية، وبفضل أعمالها يمكننا اليوم مطالعة الوجوه الفلسطينية قبل النكبة، وتلمس لطفها وبساطتها.
ليست هناك أية معلومات أكيدة تتعلق بنشأتها التعليمية والمدارس التي التحقت بها أو حتى حياتها الخاصة، ولكن من شبه المؤكد أنها عملت كمعلمة في مدرسة شنلر. ودفنت كريمة عبود عند وفاتها في مقبرة الكنيسة اللوثرية على طريق القدس- الخليل، تاركة إرثاً كبيراً تجسد في مجموعتها الفوتوغرافية التي صورتها على مدى ربع قرن.Karima Abboud (1893-1940) is credited with being the first professional woman photographer in Palestine. Born in 1893, Abboud grew up in a multilingual household in Bethlehem where she learned to speak English and German fluently in addition to her native Arabic. Though it is not clear how or where she learned the art of photography, various sources allude to her first receiving a camera as a gift from her father in 1913. She was described in a 1924 advertisement that appeared in the Haifa newspaper, al-Karmel, as “the nation’s only woman photographer”. Abboud excelled in portraiture. Many of her subjects were family members or middle-class Palestinians that she photographed, often times in their homes, on her various trips around Palestine accompanying her father, a Lutheran preacher. As such, her photographic legacy provides a rare glimpse from a unique perspective into middle-class Palestinian life during the first half of the 20th century.
Our little film from Jordan, When Monaliza Smiled, at the Filmhuis, The Hague.
Cairo. What do you see?
Women in Graffiti: A Tribute to the Women of Egypt →
It’s a battle, being a woman in an Arab country, but perhaps the dire conditions makes us fighters. Since January 25, so many foreign reporters have waxed on about the awakening of Arab women in the Arab Spring; and how the revolutions liberated us/made us wake up and smell the coffee/made us throw off our headscarves and run happily through the meadows.
This, in my opinion, is crap. When you look at the videos and photos of the eighteen days of Tahrir, you’ll see Egyptian women side by side with men in the thick of battles, some even at the front lines, braving tear gas and live bullets. We participated as Egyptians first, not as women, in January 25. And it’s incredibly patronizing to assume we ‘became’ liberated; 1. as if it was a revolution led by men that awakened and inspired us women 2. as if women were living in caves and making mud paintings before the revolution….
