Spring 2009
Diana Allan
By Diana Allan Spring 2009 | ArteZine In a recent New York Times interview with the artist Emily Jacir about her installation “Material for a Film” (now on display at the Guggenheim), she was asked how she “distinguish[es] between her political activity and her art.” Jacir’s work draws on personal experience as a Palestinian living and…
Eric Gottesman
By Eric Gottesman Spring 2009 | ArteZine I. Before I arrived, before I read Darwish, before I knew where it was on a map and some time after my mother tried to describe what her father’s father told her about it, Beirut was a part of me. At family gatherings in Boston or New Jersey or…
Eyal Eithcowich
By Eyal Eithcowich Spring 2009 | ArteZine On October 6th 2008, when my short video, Israel’s Generals Speak came out on the internet, the media in Israel had a field day. “Israeli Generals Mislead,” cried the headlines, because one of the military people whom we interviewed for the piece said we took his words out of context. In…
Miriam Shatanawi
By Miriam Shatanawi Spring 2009 | ArteZine On August 7, 2008, an Amsterdam court ruled that an exhibition at the Tropenmuseum commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of al-Nakba, a term used by Palestinians to refer to their catastrophe of 1948, could remain open. The case against the museum was brought by a visitor who accused the museum…
Azra Aksamija
By Azra Aksamija Spring 2009 | ArteZine What the conflicts over the newly planned mosques in countries such as Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Italy, and the United States have in common is the attitude that it is acceptable to build a new mosque, as long as it does not look like one. Notwithstanding the fact that Muslim…
Sadia Shirazi
By Sadia Shirazi Spring 2009 | ArteZine Upon its unveiling in a city with one square foot of green space per inhabitant, Cairo’s 74-acre Al Azhar Park in 2005 was rightfully heralded as the greatest green space in the city’s modern history.(1) The Park was part of an urban revitalization project in the old city aimed…
Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh
By Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh Spring 2009 | ArteZine A reflection on a photographic conversation from Burj al-Shamali camp. When I initiated a series of small summer workshops in six Palestinian camps in Lebanon in 2001 with photographer Simon Lourié, I never imagined that we would be going back and forth to the camps for four years, or…
Khaled Hafez, Hamed Nada
By Khaled Hafez and Hamed Nada Spring 2009 | Gallery Interview with Khaled Hafez, Former Pupil of Hamed Nada Seggerman: When did you first meet Hamed Nada and what are your memories of that meeting? Hafez: It was 1981. I was a student in medical school and there was an all-universities art competition judged by Zakareya el Zeiny,…
Winter 2008
Hoda Kanoo
By Hoda Kanoo Winter 2008 | ArteZine Last year you created the Young Press Leaders Program (YPL) which has been extended and expanded into 2009. Why did you start it? To give national students the opportunity to interact with professional journalists and to focus their creativity in producing something special. It is a platform in which…
Kirsten Scheid, Jessica Winegar, Louay Hayyali
By Jessica Winegar, Kirsten Scheid and Louay Hayyali Winter 2008 | Gallery Kirsten Scheid and Jessica Winegar introduce the work of Louay Kayyali, a Syrian artist whose work was well-known in Syria during his life-time but was little known beyond Syria, perhaps due to his socialist commitment and lyrical figurative style. His posthumous entry to the auction market has…
