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Revolutionary Voices, Stockholm, March 2-8
Re:Orient in Stockholm, which arranges cultural events focusing on the Middle East, North Africa and the Balkans, is celebrating Music Freedom Day as well as International Women’s Day with their week...
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Live Ideas Festival: MENA/Future – Cultural Transformations
This year the Live Ideas festival in New York, running until May 26, focuses on the MENA region in a series of events including an Emel Mathlouthi Concert on March 15th, and a conversation with Aileen...
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The Oscars and the Berlinale
With the 88th Academy Awards ceremony to take place this Sunday, Al Bawaba looks back at nine films from the region to be nominated for an Oscar, including Hany Abu Assad’s Paradise Now (2005) and Omar...
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Luxor African Film Festival
The 5th edition of Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) is scheduled to run between 17-23 March. The festival was established to remedy the lack of attention paid to African films in Egypt, with Luxor...
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Museum of Lost Objects
BBC Radio 4 has a series called The Museum of Lost Objects presented by Kanishk Tharoor, and produced by Maryam Maruf which “traces the stories of 10 antiquities or ancient sites that have been...
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Al Hangar and the New Generation of Saudi Artists
Myrna Award writes about Al Hangar (The Warehouse) an initiative by young Saudi artists, who describe it as a cultural movement which aims to “ignite a sense of community.” Artists are individually...
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Egyptian Arts Festival D-Caf (March 31- April 22)
D-Caf (Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival) returns for its fifth edition on March 31 running until April 22. “Egypt’s only international multi-disciplinary contemporary arts festival,” D-CAF has...
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Remediating Fairuz
The short film Alia directed by Raghed Charabaty is a “haunting and poetic glimpse into the flashpoint that started the Lebanese Civil War.” In the film, a man reminisces about Alia and “the last few...
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Symbolic Cities: The Photography of Ahmed Mater
Ahmed Mater’s first US exhibition, focusing on his landscape photography on the impact of urbanisation and the rapid change that Saudi Arabia has experienced, will be on view at the Smithsonian’s...
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Until June
I’m taking a short break from the blog. I will be defending my Phd dissertation in June, so the next two months are crisis time for me! The Arab Hyphen facebook page will continue though, be sure to...
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Hello Again
I’m back! After having taken the last five months off to work on the final stages of my phd, I’m so happy to have successfully defended my thesis, and look forward to getting back to the blog and...
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Sinan Antoon in Stockholm: Translation and Literature of/on Iraq
Crossposted on Arablit. On October 19th, Iraqi writer and literary translator Sinan Antoon visited Stockholm University for an afternoon lecture entitled “Living Here and There: Travel and Exile in...
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