Literature and Arts from the Center of the World
When friends in Abu Dhabi asked Deborah Williams how she could support MBS by going to “his” festival, she didn’t have an answer, only another question: how do we draw the lines around where we will or won’t go?
Ara Oshagan I am walking along the narrow and labyrinthine Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hammoud in Beirut—spaces with names like Nor (new) Marash, Nor Sis, Nor Yozgat. These are the… Continue reading Displaced: From Beirut to Los Angeles to Beirut
Twelve Gates Arts and the Collective for Black Iranians are hosting “Hasteem: We Are Here” from September 3-24, 2021. Maryam Sophia Jahanbin Content warning: enslavement, land and labor acknowledgement.… Continue reading Hasteem, We Are Here: The Collective for Black Iranians
Art historian Sophie Kazan speaks to Sagal Ali about the importance of art-making for the future of Somalia and her founding of the Somali Arts Foundation. Sophie Kazan… Continue reading For Somalia’s Sagal Ali and Her Country’s Future, Art Triumphs Over War
Yara Chaalan looks into the Shababek Gallery for Contemporary Art in Gaza and profiles a few younger, emerging artists.
Former Egypt and Turkey-based photographer Claudia Wiens documents street art of the Arab Spring.
Covid-19 shows no sign of abating, forcing cities and some countries into more quarantines and further lockdown; without music, cinema, literature and artistic events, how long can we hold on?