‘Healing the Distance’: Successful Online Literary Events
Arab writers and scholars whose events literary events had to move online learned some quick lessons in what makes virtual gatherings succeed.
Arab Publishers Take a Hit From the Covid-19 Crisis
Publishing houses across the Arab region are looking for strategies to survive the effects of canceled book fairs and bookstore closings.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Honors Authors in a Virtual Event
The prestigious prizes could not be presented in person this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but the show went on virtually.
Relief Organizations Help Artists Affected by Covid-19
Funding groups in the Arab world and elsewhere are offering assistance to artists and other creative workers who face difficulties because of the Covid-19 shutdowns.
Nonprofit Groups Shift Tactics to Help the Arts Survive the Coronavirus
With artistic productions shut down by the pandemic, cultural organizations are looking for ways to continue their missions and get support to unemployed artists.
Arab Artists Respond to a World Disrupted by Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic has shut down exhibitions and concerts or forced them to move online. Some artists welcome the changes for their democratizing effect, but others wonder how they’ll pay the rent.
For Sudanese Artist Mohammad Omar Khalil, Black Is All Color
An exhibition of Khalil’s prints in London honors his international career. With the gallery closed by the coronavirus pandemic, viewers can see only glimpses of it online.
Umm Kulthum: A Tribute to a Legendary Voice of Egypt
The life of a singer much loved across the Arab world is told in a Western-style musical in London. Can such an adaption succeed?
Protest Art Turns a Concrete Tunnel into a Vibrant Gallery
Artists among the protesters in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square use murals, graffiti, street theater and music to emphasize the call for Iraqi unity and an end to foreign intervention in their government.
The Artist Jumana Manna Preserves Palestinian Heritage Through Film, Music, and Seeds
A Berlin-based artist with Palestinian heritage incorporates archival material into works that seek to give audiences access to the inner lives of Palestinians before the “catastrophe” of 1948.
