ArteEast: Art and Culture In Transformative Times

The entirety of ArteEast's conference, “Arts and Culture in Transformative Times: Expanding the Philanthropic Dialogue on the Middle East and North Africa,” is now online. The conference was organized by ArteEast, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation and its co-hosts, the Open Society Foundations, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the British Council and was held in New York …

Tomorrow We Will See

The film Bukra Minshouf ("Tomorrow We Will See") by Lebanese-Japanese director Soraya Umewaka tells the story of Lebanon and art through ten artists, offering "a window into Lebanon's flourishing creative culture." Here's more about the film: A rock band's thought-provoking lyrics, a poet's description of time shrinking, an architect's experimental manipulation of space, and a …