Fall 2013
Dictaphone Group, Dia Saleh
By Dictaphone Group and Dia Saleh Fall 2013 | ArteZine “The sea was neither stolen, nor looted (manhouba).It was bestowed (mawhouba)” Perched on a bench next to a rickety wooden fisherman’s hut by the sea, sits a man in his 60s, wearing a grin and traditional white Bahraini headscarf. Only ten years ago, if the bench stayed where…
Ghiath Jebawi
By Ghiath Jebawi Fall 2013 | ArteZine Al-Raml Al-Janoubi (the Southern Sands) is an impoverished neighbourhood south of Lattakia city in Syria. The neighbourhood is divided into many districts, four of which are located on the coastline, from east to west respectively: Al-Shalehat (Chalets) which include a military residential complex, Talae’e Al-Baath Camp (Baath Party Vanguards…
Rana Jarbou
By Rana Jarbou Fall 2013 | ArteZine “Saudi Arabia is one of very few countries in the world where the effect of the global economic crisis has been relatively minor; thus highlighting the continued Saudi governmental support for the domestic tourism market which is both robust and unwavering,” said Prince Abdullah Bin Saud Bin Mohammed Al-Saud, Chairman…
MashaaCollective
By MashaaCollective Fall 2013 | ArteZine The story of Mashaa began in 2012, in the middle of a hot and sticky summer in Beirut. It came at the end of a decade. A decade where we had witnessed, all along the coast, new chic beach resorts popping up like mushrooms, with swimming pools and jacuzzis right on the…
Haneen Naamnih, Rana Bishara
By Haneen Naamnih and Rana Bishara Fall 2013 | ArteZine Three Miniatures Haifa [The establishment of the new port of Haifa in 1929 led to a drastic change in the city’s social and political structure. Many Palestinian families and individuals moved from their nearby villages to live and work in Haifa given the prosperity of the economy, whether…
Nuha Innab
By Nuha Innab Fall 2013 | ArteZine The reality of what you see is directly proportional to your imagination, for the reality I live in this moment is perceived differently by me than it’s perceived by you, transforming itself into a memory which varies depending on the messenger and the place. What are we in the…
Fakhri El Ghezal
By Fakhri El Ghezal, ArteEast Featured Artist Fall, Winter 2013 | Gallery This work does mirror both a subjective and an ironic reaction to the political scheme ruling the world, and certainly Tunisia. This toil interrogates us on the limits and the power of the media, wars and their roles in provoking conflicts, including that of…
By Fakhri El Ghezal, ArteEast Featured Artist Fall 2013 | Gallery Sidi is a designation, a polite form, one we used to denominate with prophets, saints, cheikhs , educators, professors, the elderly, the experimented folks… I think that “Sidi” cannot be translated to English. It combines both “Mister” and “Merciful.” The protagonists of this series, ones…
Summer 2013
Alya Sebti, Holiday Powers, Hicham Berrada, Zineb Andress Arraki
By Alya Sebti, Holiday Powers, Hicham Berrada and Zineb Andress Arrakki, ArteEast Guest Curator, ArteEast Featured Artist Summer 2013 | Gallery This issue marks the fourth installment of a six-quarter cycle of the Virtual Gallery that spotlights artists from the Maghreb leading up to the 2014 edition of the Marrakech Biennial. Each subsequent gallery will showcase artists who deal with…
Beirut
By Beirut Summer 2013 | ArteZine As we write, people in Istanbul protest the demolition of Taksim Gezi park. L’Internationale, a new European Museum Confederation, makes its first statement in relation to the events. In Cairo, “cultural intellectuals” have claimed the Minister of Culture’s office, in a performance-filled sit-in for a fortnight – and ongoing; in…
