The Second AFAC Film Week

In its second Film Week, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) is bringing works by filmmakers from seven Arab countries (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia) to Cairo. The week-long programme will run between 15 and 22 April at Zawya cinema. The films to be shown include: Return to Homs by Talal Derky …

Adonis: The Difference between a Poem and a Painting

The Daily Star interviews Syrian poet Adonis on the eve of the opening of “A,” an exhibition of his visual art in Paris. The exhibition runs until May 10, 2015 at the Galerie Azzedine Alaïa. Adonis' visual works incorporate poetry directly - as his "experiments with visual art began by taking verses by such great Arab poets as Bashar …

Palestinian Art at The Jerusalem Fund Gallery

Mark Jenkins writes about Palestinian art at The Washington Post, reviewing Helen Zughaib’s show “Fractured Spring” on exhibition at The Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds. The gallery is one of three divisions of the Jerusalem Fund, created in 1977 to raise money for philanthropic projects in the Palestinian territories. However, the gallery, which was founded in …

Arts of the Arab Uprisings

The exhibit "Arts of the Arab World Uprisings" is ongoing at the Arab American National Museum, up to February 9, 2014. The exhibit was created in conjunction with the 2013 Freer Symposium at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Participants of the symposium include Wael Abbas, Khaled Matawwa, Lina Ben Mhenni, Jill Dougherty, Stephennie Mulder, …

Boutros Hallaq: The Arabic Novel and the Civil Uprising

During the first year of the so-called Arab Spring Boutros Hallaq spoke at the Arabic Circle at the University of Chicago about The Arabic Novel and the Civil Uprising (which is what he called the Arab Spring), and there's a recording of the talk he gave in Arabic here. Here's a summary/translation of the talk: …