Arts & Culture
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News & Reports
Art Galleries Flourish in Beirut’s Port Blast Area Despite Lebanon’s Economic Crisis
Partly because art is seen as a safe investment in a country where many people cannot access their bank savings,…
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Berlin Cultural Majlis Enlivens Engagement with Arab Art in Germany
The Berlin Cultural Majlis plans to sponsor weekly events where artists, poets, filmmakers, and intellectuals from the Middle East discuss…
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Sculptures Advance Riyadh Art Initiative’s Goal of Making the City ‘a Creative Canvas’
The new public artworks were created for this year’s Tuwaiq Sculpture symposium. Sarah Alruwayti, the event’s director, discussed the project’s…
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Opinion
Head of the Smithsonian Institution Talks about the Power of Culture, History and Museums
Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the United States’ Smithsonian Institution, tells a Cairo audience about his vision of what…
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Writers and Artists Say Awards Boost Them and Their Craft
Prize-winning Egyptian writers and artists discuss how awards have raised their morale and benefitted their craft.
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Young Lebanese Need to Learn About Their History, Not Their Divisions, Says Heritage Director
As Lebanese universities introduce courses on conserving cultural artifacts, an academic at the Lebanese American University worries that youth are…
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Lebanon’s Explosion of Political Graffiti Could Be a Subject for Study in Beirut Art Schools
The massive anti-corruption protests that engulfed Lebanon in 2019 spawned an explosion of street art. Some of Beirut’s art schools…
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Palestinian Scholar Redisplays Artwork from 2 Key Arab Exhibitions of the 1930s
For a recent exhibition in Ramallah, the Palestinian architect and historian Nadi Abusaada spent five years tracking down materials exhibited…
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‘Room 207’ Wins New Fans for Authors of Egyptian Horror Fiction
The hit series, based on a novel by the late Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, is the latest in a string of…
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