Spring 2010
Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman
By Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman Spring 2010 | ArteZine In May 2006, the Israeli army evacuated a military fortress strategically located on one the highest hill at the southern edge to the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour in the Bethlehem region. The fortress, located on the line-of-water-divide that separates the arable lands of Bethlehem from the…
Ursula Biemann, Oroub El-Abed
By Oroub el Abed and Ursula Biemann Spring 2010 | ArteZine In 1997, the U.S. established several Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) in Jordan and Egypt, where labor-intensive production (such as textiles and garments), were manufactured for tax-free export to the U.S., under the condition that the financial operation involved an 8% Israeli input. This neo-liberal initiative, aimed at…
Ziad Turkey
By Ziad Turkey Spring 2010 | ArteZineSpring 2010 | ArteZine I probably made the right decision to rescue my family from the infernal sectarianism and hate that prevail in our society. I heard that the house where my family and I used to live was burned by the militias a few months after leaving the country….
Summer 2009
Reem Fadda, Leeza Ahmady, Iftikhar Dadi
By Leeza Ahmady, Iftikhar Dadi and Reem Fadda, ArteEast Guest Curator Summer 2009 | Gallery Featured in this edition of the Virtual Gallery, ArteEast’s major visual arts exhibition – Tarjama/Translation – maps an influential subset of recent work from the Middle East and Central Asia and its diasporas as a complex and dynamic translational undertaking. Rather than highlighting the region as…
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…
