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16.06.13
If Facebook is the ultimate popularity test, then the most famous art institute on the planet is not in Paris, New York or London. It's a tiny gallery hidden on the fifth floor of a nondescript building in Amsterdam. Measuring a meager 750 square feet, The Greenbox Museum is the More...
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19.05.13
A tiny collective of rural women at the southern tip of the Dead Sea in Safi is creating art that’s omni-sustainable. Since 1999, with catalytic infusions from a remarkable Canadian painter, this Jordanian sisterhood has been crafting unusual “eco” fabric items bespoke to their salty seaside village. Simple cotton fabrics More...
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28.04.13
“The Bamboo Stalk” by Kuwaiti writer Saud Alsanousi won the sixth International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The novel was chosen as the best fiction work to be published in the last 12 months, selected from 133 submissions from across the Arab world. Alsanousi’s book tells the story of Issa, the More...
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14.04.13
As the art world descends on the Gulf cities of Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi and Doha, each March visitors would do well to keep in mind another Gulf city that was in every sense an art and culture pioneer. Kuwait City hosted its very first public art exhibition back in More...
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31.03.13
Until only recently, the concept of an ‘art week’ had yet to be seen in Saudi Arabia. Things are changing in the Kingdom. For one, the lack of support and timid attention the local art scene has typically received from the Government – as noted by Robert Klijver in his Introduction to More...
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31.03.13
They've been described as the voice of their generation -- though not one that everyone is comfortable hearing. Mashrou' Leila, whose name translates as "The Night Project," is a controversial alternative rock band from Lebanon, whose music has served as something of a soundtrack to the Arab Spring for many More...
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17.03.13
Music, especially hip hop, has always been at the heart of social and political upheaval, inspiring change and speaking out against inequality and injustice. With the rise of revolution in the Middle East and North Africa, rappers from the region are also using music to bring about change. Amkoullel, Malian More...
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10.03.13
25-year-old Saudi entrepreneur and fashion designer Rand AlBassam has an ambitious goal. She wants to revolutionise the hijab worn by many Muslim women — and bring back a piece of headgear neglected by the fashion world, the turban. In an interview with Middle East entrepreneurship website Wamda, AlBassam says that More...
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10.03.13
It’s a very sizable field of human excrement on the road from Sharjah to Dhaid in the United Arab Emirates. It’s part of the excellent work being done by Beeah, Sharjah’s award-winning waste management company. This drying field is one of the early stages in their process of converting sewage More...
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10.03.13
Last week we posted about “5 Broken Cameras”, a Palestinian documentary in the race for an Oscar. Sawsan Qaoud, a filmmaker and lecturer at Al Quds University, returned home to set up her own filmmaking company in Ramallah. Today, she also works as a lecturer mentoring young Palestinians More...
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