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Walls of Freedom. Street Art of The Egyptian Revolution
The Bookshelf Walls of Freedom is a powerful portrayal of the first three years of the Egyptian revolution that began on January 25, 2011.The story is told through striking images that transformed Egypt’s walls into a visual testimony of bravery and resistance....
On Contemporary Extremism and Cultural Oppression
Arielle Blattner Graphic designer and MA Student of Islamic Art "In Medieval times, discrete attempts to diverge from authoritative ideology were tolerated by the Islamic ruling class for art’s sake, fostering a more liberal and independent society of artists. With...
Untranslatable
How to read the (lack of) Arabic graffiti on the Wall Rebecca Gould Assistant professor at Yale-NUS College (Singapore) Photo by Bilal Randeree. By contrast with the proliferation of the insignia of resistance in English and other European languages, only in rare...
The Arab Film Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary
by iwamag Oct 5th, 2016 - The Arab Film Festival, the largest independent annual showcase of Arab cinema in the US, opens on Oct 7th its 20th edition. In these 20 years the Film Festival has grown with its audience, becoming what it is today: one of the most important...
The 6th edition of MAFF opens – Cinema is for everyone, and crosses all boundaries
by iwamag MALMÖ, Sep 30th 2016 - The 6th edition of one of the most influential film festival focusing on Arabic cinema, the Malmö Arab Film Festival, opens today. The MAFF is the largest film festival with an Arabic cinema focus outside the traditional Arab world....
Every People Under Heaven, Every People in Jerusalem
BY IWAMAG NEW YORK, Sep 26th 2016 - Today at The Metropolitan Museum opens the new exhibition Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven, that will run until next January 8th, 2017. The exhibition wants to underline the key role that Jerusalem, the Holy City,...
Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem – Book Review
The Bookshelf Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem by Lawrence Nees Brill Publication date: October 2015 ISBN: 9789004301764 Hardback, 235 pages, 71 illustrations $ 179,00 Almost every month a new book on Jerusalem and its long history is published, but...
The Value of Human Life
Maritime art has been drawing on the history and destiny of thousands of men and women since the 16th century. Today, maritime installations tell us something more about what we are prepared to do to survive and of the price of indifference Dr. Bilgehan Köhler Curator...
Men in the Sun, Men Underwater
In 1963, the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani wrote Men in the Sun, the tragic story of three Palestinian refugees who put their lives at risk for the sake of a better future Sara Ibrahim IWA - Islamic World of Art’s Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Professional...
The Mosque of Cordoba
Photos by Abdulrahman Bader and Massimo Tartaro As Oleg Grabar puts it, “The Great Mosque of Cordoba is acknowledged as a major masterpiece of Islamic architecture”. The Great Mosque of Cordoba has been described by scholars as both a typical hypostyle mosque (i.e. a...