Past Disquiet at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris

Past Disquiet at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris

Curators Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri have assembled a formidable exhibition on museums and solidarity movements using art...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Kristine Khouri
Bani Khoshnoudi: Featured Artist for PARIS

Bani Khoshnoudi: Featured Artist for PARIS

Bani Khoshnoudi's work is often inhabited by displacement and uprooting, explore themes of exile, modernity and its violences,...

1 APRIL 2024 • By TMR
Nass El Ghiwane’s Moroccan Folk, Radical Politics, Forged in Paris

Nass El Ghiwane’s Moroccan Folk, Radical Politics, Forged in Paris

Paris provided the grit and opportunity for Nass el Ghiwane to hone a new sound that would rock...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Benjamin Jones
Paris, Abstraction and the Art of Yvette Achkar

Paris, Abstraction and the Art of Yvette Achkar

Arie Amaya-Akkermans delves into Yvette Achkar's compelling artwork depicting the resilience of the human spirit in the face...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
When Fatma Haddad Became “Baya”—a Paris Art Story

When Fatma Haddad Became “Baya”—a Paris Art Story

Baya was among first Algerian artists recognized in Paris. Though labeled naïve, her art remains influential and enduring.

1 APRIL 2024 • By Naima Morelli
“Paris of the Middle East”—fiction by MK Harb

“Paris of the Middle East”—fiction by MK Harb

With tarot cards and a recipe for pickled turnips, Beirutis bid farewell to yet another friend leaving on...

1 APRIL 2024 • By MK Harb
Holding Back the Bobos: Portrait of Paris’ Belleville

Holding Back the Bobos: Portrait of Paris’ Belleville

In Paris, Belleville struggles to hang on to its immigrant roots while the world's cities gentrify and price...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Cole Stangler
Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

With genocidal violence raging in Gaza and muzzling of pro-Palestinian voices throughout France, Ariella Azoulay's word is now...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Sasha Moujaes
Happy as an Arab in Paris

Happy as an Arab in Paris

Wanis El Kabbaj fondly reminisces about his father's elation while in Paris and the profound significance the city...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Wanis El Kabbaj
Feurat Alani: Paris, Fallujah and Recovered Memory

Feurat Alani: Paris, Fallujah and Recovered Memory

Feurat Alani, a French novelist of Iraqi descent, succeeds in capturing the connections between two disparate cultural spheres.

1 APRIL 2024 • By Nada Ghosn
Our Favorite Arab/Middle Eastern Restaurants in Paris

Our Favorite Arab/Middle Eastern Restaurants in Paris

Our writers share some of their preferred dining establishments in Paris, where cuisines of the Middle East and...

1 APRIL 2024 • By TMR
They/Them: Identify Yourself Immediately

They/Them: Identify Yourself Immediately

The mechanical obligation to reveal one's origin during French conversation is not only tedious, but downright boring, writes...

1 APRIL 2024 • By Sabah Haider
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