Art & Photography

Rawand Issa’s A Chicken’s Diary

Rawand Issa’s A Chicken’s Diary

Beirut graphic novelist Rawand Issa found she could begin to think more intimately about life and love by...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Rawand Issa
Afghanistan’s Histories of Conflict, Resistance & Desires

Afghanistan’s Histories of Conflict, Resistance & Desires

A new exhibition unravels the entangled histories and cultures of Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Western Europe through...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Jelena Sofronijevic
Finding Emptiness: Gaza Artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut

Finding Emptiness: Gaza Artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut

Jim Quilty interviews Paris-based Gazan artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut about his new show, "Just in Case" at...

21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Mounir Fatmi—Where Art Meets Technology

Mounir Fatmi—Where Art Meets Technology

Sophie Kazan Makhlouf interviews international Moroccan artist Mounir Fatmi on his studio practice, why he makes art, and...

28 DECEMBER 2024 • By Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
Traveling Crafts:  The Moon and Science Fiction in Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art

Traveling Crafts: The Moon and Science Fiction in Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art

Science fiction and dystopias figure prominently in Arab literature going back more than 100 years, writes Elizabeth Rauh.

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Elizabeth L. Rauh
Palestinian Artists Reflect on the Role of Art in Catastrophic Times

Palestinian Artists Reflect on the Role of Art in Catastrophic Times

Multimedia and performing artists gather in Marseille for the 8th Biennale "Sin," on how to be a Palestinian...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Nina Hubinet
Beyond Our Gaze: Rethinking Animals in Contemporary Art

Beyond Our Gaze: Rethinking Animals in Contemporary Art

Naima Morelli spotlights artists who reveal how animals in art serve as symbols, actors, or something altogether new.

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Naima Morelli
Artists & Animals: Adham Faramawy, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Ouma & Mohammad Shaqdih

Artists & Animals: Adham Faramawy, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Ouma & Mohammad Shaqdih

Four artists choose their animals, birds and fish as inspiration, cautionary tale, or metaphor.

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Jelena Sofronijevic
The Palestinian Gazelle

The Palestinian Gazelle

Artist Manal Mahamid shares the evolution of her exhibition, The Palestinian Gazelle, reflecting on the paradox of colonialism.

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Manal Mahamid
Visuals and Voices: Palestine Will Not Be a Palimpsest

Visuals and Voices: Palestine Will Not Be a Palimpsest

After a year of the war on Gaza, signs and symbols, art, and visuals from and about Palestine...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Photographer Mohamed Mahdy—Artist at Work

Photographer Mohamed Mahdy—Artist at Work

A world-renowned artist believes citizen photojournalism empowers communities to tell their own stories, giving it significant power.

27 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Marianne Roux
What Is Home?—Gazans Redefine Place Amid Displacement

What Is Home?—Gazans Redefine Place Amid Displacement

Continuously displaced Palestinians redefine "home" in Osama Kahlout’s surprising photographs from the war on Gaza.

31 MAY 2024 • By Nadine Aranki
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