Oraib Toukan
, 2006
, 2 min
A performance video referencing Mahmoud Darwish’s 1982 classic “Memory for Forgetfulness”. Made 18 years ago the work is part of a duology titled Counting Memories following the summer of 2006 when Israel launched a war on both Gaza and Lebanon one month apart. The video reveres the act of writing and the will to remember. In…
March 2024
Azza El-Hassan, Mustafa Abu Ali, Arab Loutfi, Layaly Badr, Ali Siam, Mohanad Yaqubi
ARCHIVES OF POWER: The Palestinian Film Archive and the Erasure of History Screening Online on artearchive.org from March 7 – 17, 2024 (Available Worldwide) Screening in-person at Anthology Film Archives from March 8-12, 2024 (Get Tickets Here) Archives, often perceived as impartial guardians of history, are actually deeply entwined with political agendas. In the context of the Palestinian struggle, archives have…
Ali Siam
, 1969
, 6 min
Set to the famous song by Fairouz, Flower of All Cities, a harmonious picture of Palestinian civil life in Jerusalem is disturbed by the Israeli army’s occupation of the city following the 1967 war. A rare example of the work of Hani Jawharieh, one of founding fathers of Palestinian cinema.
Bayan Kiwan
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Bayan Kiwan as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Bayan Kiwan is an artist based between New York and Amman. She holds a BFA in Fine Arts from the University of Jordan, and an MA in art, gender and sexuality, with a focus on the Arab…
