Summer 2007
Nahid Rachlin
By Nahid Rachlin Summer 2007 | ArteZine Even after a week Mohtaram could not believe that her sister, Narghes, was really with her in the living room of her house. But there she was, her polka dot chador wrapped around her, sitting in a patch of the sun on the rug in the living room to…
Sholeh Wolpé
By Sholeh Wolpé Summer 2007 | ArteZine For Omid On their way to Canada in a red Mazda, my brother and his friend, PhDs and little sense, stopped at the border and the guard leaned forward, asked: Where you boys heading? My brother, Welcome to Canada poster in his eyes replied: Mexico. The guard blinked, stepped…
Baharak Sedigh
By Baharak Sedigh Summer 2007 | ArteZine the desertification of our planet approaches slowly but like our own death it comes steadily and with promise yet wise men and women holy souls who all cry faith hang on to their corners at opposite ends of the old city living together but in hatred preaching the word…
Persis Karim
By Persis Karim and Nahid Rachlin Summer 2007 | ArteZine Conducted by Persis M. Karim Nahid Rachlin came to the United States more than three decades ago as a wide-eyed young woman seeking a college education. Like many early Iranian immigrants, she came at a time when US-Iranian relations were positive and when the United States actively supported Mohammad…
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
Florence Renault
By Florence Renault Spring 2007 | Gallery Younès Rahmoun has set up shop. The space is cramped, barely more than a cubic meter. This is his studio, the Ghorfa. (1) It is in this empty space, under the staircase of his family home, that the artist conceives, develops, sketches, and finally designs the installations that will…
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…
