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Despite the image here in America, Land of the Arab world as uncouth and uncultured, the Arabs have a rich cinematic history. Arabs have been making movies and hundreds...
made popular Dec 12 2009
Very few Arabs or thoughtful Westerns view the Palestinians as one-dimensional resistance fighters or, worse, terrorists. The Palestinians are known for their poetry -...
made popular Aug 27 2009
Calligraphy is the art of the Arabs. That is not an accident of history, but a direct consequence of the arrival of Islam. Pagan Arabs had long drawn images of...
made popular Aug 22 2009
Thanks to the wisdom of the late Saudi Mufti Bin Baz, cinemas are banned is this awfully repressive Kingdom.
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The Wahhabi clerics...
made popular Jul 21 2009
Mahmoud Darwish was born in northern Palestine, in what is today referred to some by “Israel.” In 1948, with the al-Nakba [The Catastrophe] resulting from...
made popular Jul 16 2009
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed,” said William Blake. But the moral guardians of daytime TV take a different view. The Channel 4...
made popular Jul 13 2009
Van Gogh and Gauguin forged a deep friendship
during the two years they lived and painted, sharing a place in Arles, in the south of France.
The two had built the...
made popular May 20 2009
Studio3 presents “Stillness Speaks” an exhibition of Buddha Paintings
by Umakant Tawde at Jehangir Art Gallery.2nd AC Hall from 3rd June...
made popular May 14 2009
London is hosting a Palestinian film festival for its tenth year. Not an Arab film festival, but a Palestinian one. Chicago and Houston also hold their annual...
made popular May 2 2009
Sussane Wenger, painter, sculpture and artist of Austrian origin, but who lived almost all her adult life in Osogbo, Nigeria has died in Osogbo on January 12, 2009 at...
made popular Jan 29 2009
Lahore is Pakistan’s leading center of art and culture. Recently, on January 09 2009, two theaters in Lahore were targeted by what are thought to be fundamentalist...
made popular Jan 12 2009
The dancing girls of Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, are on strike in protest against the tide of Talibanisation that is threatening to destroy an art form...
made popular Dec 12 2008
I was in a haze staring at my monitor when I had this phantom scenario in my head one morning, where me and a couple of friends were in a round table chatting and...
made popular Oct 16 2008
L’atelier WM is a a group of young artists founded in Paris in 2008. They have a line of colorful candles, both in looks and attitude. Hands making gestures cast...
made popular Oct 8 2008
With the end of the Summer Salzburg Festival, I think back to the founders of such an event. Two of the prime movers were Jews: the magnificent theater director Max...
made popular Sep 15 2008
This is probably one of the most famous squares in Italy and in the world: St Mark’s Square, one of the symbols of Venice. However, the 900-year-old piazza, which...
made popular Sep 1 2008
The crucified frog will be staying where it is. A statue representing a frog on a cross like Jesus Christ, with eyes and tongue lolling out, will remain displayed in...
made popular Aug 31 2008
In yesterday’s Times Of India the “Speaking Tree” section espouses the merits of knitting . In a US church they have something called the...
made popular Aug 29 2008
By Vincent Van Ross
Last year there were indications of the beginning of a great boom in the Indian art market—or, so it seemed. It soared like the stock market. ...
made popular Aug 6 2008
“The Golan Heights is a plateau on the border of Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. The Syrians attacked the Golan with 1,500 tanks and 1,000 artillery pieces.
made popular Aug 5 2008
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Can our mind heal itself? Can we prevent and protect ourselves from depression?
What is depression? Is it just a biochemical process which can even cripple some...
made popular Jun 29 2008
People can have different types of hobbies. Photography, cooking, music, painting etc. are some common hobbies but one type of hobby is Coin Collecting which well may...
made popular Jan 10 2008
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