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Mahmoud Khalil: No Land to Stand On

Events

Mahmoud Khalil: No Land to Stand On

James Ryan • 2 min read

MER 319: Art at Work–People, Power and Cultural Production — 48 Cacti, 2024. Manal Mahamid. Silkscreen print, 120 x 120 cm. Featured in the exhibit "Women at Work: Intersection of Fine Art and Craft," at Dalloul Art Foundation, reviewed in this issue.

Art

MER 319: Art at Work–People, Power and Cultural Production

James Ryan • 3 min read

The Business of Culture — Construction cranes at the Zayed National Museum and Natural History Museum sites on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2024. Christopher Pike/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

UAE

The Business of Culture

Shir Alon • 9 min read

‘Women at Work’—Challenging the Art/Craft Divide — Installation view, Women at Work, courtesy of the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation (DAF), Beirut.

Art

‘Women at Work’—Challenging the Art/Craft Divide

Marybelle Issa • 12 min read

The Grandmothers’ Anger—Theater at the Margins of Occupation — Poster for “Ancestral Rage,” design by Maria Seman.

Golan

The Grandmothers’ Anger—Theater at the Margins of Occupation

Lekaa Sharaf, Maria Kastrinou • 13 min read

Listening to the Jazira—Songs as Counter Archives in Northeast Syria — Syrian Kurdish men, women and children dance the dabke in a meadow to celebrate the spring holiday of Nowruz near the town of Qahtaniyah in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, March 2020. Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images

Syria

Listening to the Jazira—Songs as Counter Archives in Northeast Syria

Heidi S. Affi • 11 min read