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Born in 1989 in Casablanca, Yasmine's strength is the open-mindedness and determination typical of her generation

Interview with director Dr Adila Laïdi Hanieh

The 2019 Venice Biennale has asked artists to step into the socio-political realm, in the middle of far-right Matteo Salvini’s Italy. And they have done it, dismantling Orientalism and...

Art institutions all around the world are paying increasing attention to emerging Moroccan artists

The contemporary art world has flocked for the Sharjah Biennial in the past month

A group of women wearing different-coloured niqabs carry ice creams that are just as colourful. Their eyes are closed as if they are about to savour the different flavours....

In previous years, the festival welcomed a variety of proposals with different content but one focus; the promotion of non-violence.

The reason why Rana Samara is one of the most cutting-edge of Palestinian artists is because she looks at one fundamental aspect of our humanity, one which is generally...

Home Beirut Sounding the Neighbors

“Today we live life in temporary slots,” Beatrice Catanzaro tells me. “Even a mother saying that she wants to have a baby thinks about it as a project. We...

Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, Palestine, opened in March 2017

Indeed, the museum is nomadic, a political stance in itself.

In many art colleges today, teachers are dismissive of work that is too personal. They disapprove of students inspired by the expressivity of a Munch or trying to follow...

According to Rafat Asad, as a Palestinian artist, you can’t avoid being political. “Every moment you live in this place is political,” he tells me. “If you want to...