‘How is it possible to call Bahrain “home”, or at least belong there? Zakharia’s images are rich with traces of impossibilities …’
All posts by “Arie Amaya-Akkermans”
Who Draws the Line?
‘Her work becomes a passing reminder that the past is not history yet, but merely the debris of the present’ - Arie Akkermans on the art of Devrim Kadirbeyoğlu
Vaults of Memory
A look at the sonic career of Yasmine Hamdan, from her iconoclastic Soap Kills days to her present status as the femme fatale of alternative Arabic music
Impossible Possibilities
Is the future of Arab art as terrifying as Lebanese artist and art historian Gregory Buchakjian makes it seem in his book, ‘War and Other [Impossible] Possibilities’?
Reclaiming the Sea
Find out how Bahraini filmmaker Mohammed Rashed Bu Ali is making waves in his island’s burgeoning cinema industry
Faded Postcards
Marc Codsi, Beirut’s sonic postman on his album, Faded Postcards, the extremities of Lebanese society, and the pacifying power of music
Sounds from the Golden Age
A heady, eclectic blend of sounds come together for a musical journey back to Beirut’s long lost ‘Golden Age’ in Safar Barlik’s EP
After Two Months
‘How many times have we heard and repeated the phrase, “after two months all will be well?”‘ - Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui on painting the Lebanese Civil War