Summer 2007
Antares Alleman, Arash Manzori
By Arash Manzori and Antares Alleman Summer 2007 | ArteZine The Odyssey is traditionally considered the founding pillar of Western Literature. We are taught that Odysseus’ heroic deeds are to be emulated, his hubris to be shunned. However, perhaps Odysseus is not the hero he is presented to be. Harold Bloom notes that Odysseus is a “universal figure,”…
Nagihan Haliloglu
By Nagihan Haliloglu Summer 2007 | ArteZine The various mass-displacements that have happened in the 20th century have led to the much popular genre of diasporic memoir. In cases where the author of the memoir is female and Muslim, this genre has converged with that of the female coming of age, or emancipatory novel to produce…
Spring 2007
Karim Tartoussieh
By Karim Tartoussieh Spring 2007 | ArteZine At a recent talk at New York University under the title: “ Whatever Happened to Masculinities Studies?” Michael S. Kimmel, who has written extensively on Masculinity mostly, but not exclusively, within an American context, spoke about the current state of Masculinity studies in the American academy. To my mind…
Sherene Seikaly, Ariella Azoulay
By Sherene Seikaly and Ariella Azoulay Spring 2007 | ArteZine Chic Point (Video, 7:00 min., 2003) by Sharif Waked. Sharif Waked’s seven-minute video, Chic Point: Fashion For Israeli Checkpoints has solicited a bevy of artistic and critical responses and unleashed strong reverberations throughout intellectual and artistic circles. In 2007, Andalus Publishing House released a book about Waked’s video work and…
By Karim Tartoussieh Spring 2007 | ArteZine Chic Point starts with a fashion show. We see a dimly lit catwalk and hear the rhythmic music associated with fashion shows. By virtue of the placement of the camera and the mise en scène of the frame, the viewer of the video is at once satisfying two functions…
Sadegh Tirafkan
By Sadegh Tirafkan Spring 2007 | ArteZine I’m an Iranian artist and my work is mostly about my culture, religion and gender. I started working around 2 decades ago, when I was thinking about these subjects and started to look for a medium that best expressed my thoughts. After trying different media such as Theater, video,…
Jordan Sudermann
By Jordan Sudermann Spring 2007 | ArteZine Jean Genet’s first encounters and homosexual experiences in North Africa and the Middle East were part of his tours with the French army in the early 1930s, with the most time being spent in Syria and Morocco. For his stay in Syria, he first arrived in Beirut, where he…
Firat Yucel
By Firat Yucel Spring 2007 | ArteZine Yazi Tura/Toss Up (2004) is directed by Ugur Yucel, a leading theater and film actor in Turkey. The film was shown and recognized in numerous international film festivals. Through distinct yet connected narratives, the film centers around two main characters that have recently returned from serving their army duty…
By ArteEast Spring 2007 | Gallery ArteEast introduces the delicately spiritual installations and sculptures of Younes Rahmoun. This selection of works highlights Rahmoun’s ability to incite visceral and humbling reactions from his viewers. Rahmoun engages within an Islamic context but is also intrigued by Sufi thought and practice. This duality results in the reverberation of repetition…
Abdellah Karroum
By Abdellah Karroum Spring 2007 | Gallery From the Rif to the Canaries and back again, always within the vast territory of the Tamzgha. (1) But Younès Rahmoun’s work seeks to transcend geographic spaces, through the penetration of these spaces in the form of the procession imposed in “visiting” his works. Younès is a mystical artist,…
