Spring 2009
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
Sharon LaVon Parker
By Sharon LaVon Parker, Author Winter 2008, 2013 | ArteZine Art is poised at the crossroads in the United Arab Emirates, particularly in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi, the important political hub of the Emirates, has arrived at the contemporary art scene very recently, unlike Dubai, with its history of involvement with exhibition spaces and setting for…
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…
Louay Hayyali, Hiba Morcos
By Hiba Morcos and Louay Hayyali Winter 2008 | Gallery Translated by Hiba Morcos When art assumes a new understanding in the collective intellectual repository and a form of social consciousness, attaining to it an aspect of struggle, this essentially constitutes a rebellion against and refusal of the given social condition. In other words, it constitutes an unceasing…
By Hiba Morcos and Louay Hayyali Winter 2008 | Gallery Translated by Hiba Morcos I have a very particular opinion about art criticism in general, and in Syria specifically; it is sharp and frank. An artist’s mission ends when he presents his production to the audience, and nobody has the right to ask for an explanation from the…
Summer 2008
Mazen Kerbaj
By Mazen Kerbaj Summer 2008 | ArteZine Mazen Kerbaj was born in Beirut in 1975 and has lived there since. His main passions are comics, painting, and music. In March 2000, he published some of his more personal works in his Journal 1999 (a dairy in comics). He has published eight other books and many short stories….
Mohieddin Ellabbad
By Mohieddin Ellabbad Summer 2008 | ArteZine Three pages from the Egyptian master illustrator’s book on visual culture. Intended for children, yet equally insightful for adults. Mohieddin Ellabbad was born in Cairo, Egypt, where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. Before completing his degree he began work as a caricaturist for Roz al-youssef and…
Hengameh Fouladvand
By Hengameh Fouladvand Summer 2008 | Gallery Artist/educator Mohammad Ehsai is one of the most renowned trendsetters in what is now called the art of calligraphic painting (Naghashi-khat) in the Middle East and specifically Iran. Rarely has the work of Mohammad Ehsai been discussed with an analytical eye or a refined method. Rather, his work has…
