Tehran-based artist and curator Ali Ettehad talks about the state of performance art in Iran, its history, and his struggle to bring it to the public
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Only in London
Joobin Bekhrad speaks with the Artistic Director of the Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab arts and culture about some of the highlights of this year’s edition in London
Karima
Joobin Bekhrad’s take on Hassan Hajjaj’s fly-on-the-wall documentary about a day in the life of Karima, a henna girl in Marrakech’s Djemaa El Fnaa
Gimme Some Truth
When he’s not busy living it up in Monaco and the French Riviera, artist Sassan Behnam Bakhtiar fights to change notions about and celebrate the beauty of his beloved Iran
Embed in Egypt
A conversation with Emine Gözde Sevim about her new book of photographs documenting the turbulent days of the Egyptian Revolution in Cairo and its aftermath
The Sound of Pomegranates
Joobin Bekhrad talks to LA-based producer, composer, and DJ Bei Ru about his newly-released second album, Saturday Night at the Magic Lamp
The Reed Flute
‘Morocco was not a place that would give you the luxury of forgetting it; it seeped, slowly but surely, into your bones, and burned its image between your eyes’
Finding Fateh
‘He didn’t want to work until the end of his life; he wanted to work until the end of life itself’ - searching for the soul of Syria’s late, great Fateh Moudarres
Iraqi Odyssey
‘Straddling a telling of his family’s history and that of Iraq from Ottoman times to the present, Samir’s aptly named film is nothing short of epic‘
The Man from Oran
‘Welcome to Algiers, baby’ - Lyes Salem blends fact and fiction in his stirring film about the aftermath of the Algerian War of Independence