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A cartoonist in occupied Palestine
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January 04, 2012 01:33 AM
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PARIS: Rarely does another city spark such passion, from ecstasy to ire to insanity. From the historical, political, religious arena to the deeply personal, contemporary Jerusalem juxtaposes physical beauty with noxious tension. Canadian cartoonist Guy Delisle’s new graphic novel,...
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From Beit Barakat to Beit Beirut
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October 01, 2011 02:05 AM
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PARIS: Last week the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris’ museum of urban planning and architecture, hosted a presentation by Lebanese architect Youssef Haidar, who discussed his restoration and modernization project for what will be a museum and urban cultural center called Beit Beirut. It...
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Madees Khoury: Taste the revolution in Taybeh
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June 22, 2011 01:44 AM
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TAYBEH, Occupied West Bank: Beer brewing is an industry long dominated by men. In the U.S., women began to penetrate the smaller independent breweries in the 1980s, but, as was noted in a recent article on the rise of women brewers in The Atlantic magazine, it’s only in the past few years...
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Taking a roaring road trip through the Palestinian sense of humor
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April 11, 2011 12:00 AM
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PARIS: There’s a story, embedded in Vanessa Rousselot’s documentary “No Laughing Matter,” about a resident of Al-Khalil [aka Hebron] and an Israeli Jew, arguing about which one is the best.“We have everything in Israel,” claims the Israeli. “No,” the Palestinian demurs, “we have everything in...
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Seeing yourself re-made as fiction
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February 02, 2011 12:00 AM
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PARIS: People who have lived through noteworthy experiences – fascinating or tragic – have always inspired writers and filmmakers. Soha Bechara is one such figure. A militant with the communist resistance to the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, Bechara was imprisoned without trial...
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Kai Wiedenh?fer's 'Gaza 2010' causes stir in Paris
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November 19, 2010 12:00 AM
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PARIS: The Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris (MAM) is again embroiled in controversy. The institution is just recovering from censorship charges, after last month denying minors access to a photo exhibit on teen love, drugs, violence and sex. Now an exhibition of photographs by...
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'Bye Bye Babylone:' Civil War memories of a child
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October 16, 2010 12:00 AM
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PARIS: What was it all for? This may be one of the most terrifying questions about Lebanon’s 15-year Civil War. The war that robbed people of their lives, childhoods and peaceful retirements has inspired countless paintings, photographs, books, plays and films. The question is at the core of...
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Altogether more than a footnote
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December 04, 2009 12:00 AM
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Interview PARIS: The first thing that comes to mind when holding graphic novelist and journalist Joe Sacco’s new book, “Footnotes in Gaza,” is the colossal amount of work that went into it. Not only is this pen-and-ink graphic novel almost 400 pages long, the subject...
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The underground methods of culture under siege
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November 03, 2009 12:00 AM
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Cancelled concerts, arrested organizers, interrogated participants: Israeli authorities have put the dampener on East Jerusalem’s year as cultural capital of the Arab world. Some, however, are managing to avoid the Israeli clampdown. Merlijn Twaalfhoven, a...
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Nearly 50 years on, Hanthala speaks to the world in English
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July 02, 2009 12:00 AM
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Review LONDON: The Palestinian political cartoonist Naji al-Ali was assassinated in London in July 1987 and to this day he remains one of the most popular artists in the Arab world. His drawings are relentlessly critical of despotism and repression and are ever-supportive of the...
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Iraqi women frame the human reality of conflict
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April 14, 2009 12:00 AM
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Review LONDON: Every once in a while a project so successfully portrays the universality of human emotion that it is both admirable and timeless. "Open Shutters Iraq" is one such project. "Open Shutters" began as a series of photographic essays and has since become a documentary film of the same...
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Aiming the lens at 'Iran's darkest corners'
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November 24, 2008 12:00 AM
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LONDON: The Iranian photojournalist Kaveh Golestan once described his youth like this:"My childhood was spent among the wheatfields outside Tehran. My father built a solitary house, far away from the nearest neighbor. I was on my own. Life was the blue sky and the sound of crickets. Then came a...
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Between tradition and modernity
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October 23, 2008 12:00 AM
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Review LONDON: As Frieze, London's mammoth annual contemporary art fair, opened this month in London, another, perhaps more ground-breaking show opened discreetly just a few tube stops away. "Edge of Arabia: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia" is a rare chance to see just how vibrant the art...
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Another one of Beirut's many unrequited lovers
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October 11, 2008 12:00 AM
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LONDON: Beirut is a city that gets under one's skin. It was a favorite with Arab intellectuals before the 1975-1990 Civil War, but the city today has taken on a veritable persona, obtaining an almost cult-like status with writers and artists obsessed with its kaleidoscopic existence, its...
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Hassan Hajjaj's impish take on Moroccan 'street glam'
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September 17, 2008 12:00 AM
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Review LONDON: On the fringes of London's exclusive Holland Park lies Leighton House Museum, the former home and private art palace of 19th-century painter and Orientalist Lord Frederic Leighton. The centerpiece of this most English of buildings is the Arab Hall, a splendid recreation of the...
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