Jan 29, 2023 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Local Arts & Culture
By Zainab Saad | Junior Editor of Local Arts & Culture (TW: mention of rape and SA) I wake up in the morning, make myself some tea and sit down to look at my personal visual board. Old paintings appear to be the prominent theme of my vision, more...
Jan 16, 2023 | Arts & Culture, Local Arts & Culture
By Lara Alhasannieh | Staff Writer Traveling by bus on the roads of Amman, Jordan, one cannot help but marvel at the beautiful handicrafts on display at every rest stop. What stood out for me were the beautiful ceramics exhibited on the shelves of every shop I...
Dec 3, 2022 | Featured, Local Arts & Culture
By Linda Ajam | Staff Writer Whenever the subject of Lebanese art history pops up, what first springs to mind (and you might relate) is the mystical illustrations of Gibran Khalil Gibran, the brightly-colored religious iconography that adorns our churches, and the...
Dec 3, 2022 | Local Arts & Culture
By Diar Turkmani | Staff Writer Salih Basheer, a 27-year-old self-taught photographer, moved from his hometown in Sudan to Cairo, Egypt, in order to pursue a degree in Geography. Disoriented by feelings of loneliness and alienation, Basheer sought to document the...
Apr 24, 2022 | Featured, Local Arts & Culture
By Yasmine Nassar | Staff Writer Art has long been a space for self-expression and emotional manifestation. Artists use their feelings as inspiration, and use art as a creative opportunity in which colors can tell one part of the story while illustrations do the...
Apr 17, 2022 | Featured, Local Arts & Culture
By Lynn Ezzeddine | Staff Writer “Can destruction create art?”, you may ask. In a country torn by war, the people had little room for anything but innovation. However, little did they know, their art was their only means of survival, and anyone’s will to live was...
