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January 22, 2014

Britain in Palestine exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London

Tucked into a corner of the Brunei Gallery in London are three share certificates in a display cabinet. One stands out as it is decorated with a beautiful blue...

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January 22, 2014

5 Broken Cameras at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London

The person in front of me flinches. Someone in the audience cannot even look at the screen, two people are crying. In an act of pure brutality, the camera...

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January 22, 2014

'Unto the Breach': Palestinian dance adaptation of Shakespeare's play

The UK-based Palestinian dabke theatre group Al Zaytouna will present its new production entitled Unto the Breach, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V set in modern-day Palestine. The show,...

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January 22, 2014

Why Remembering the Nakba is important: A new Documentary Confronts Denial

Amnon Neumann is wearing a blue shirt and large glasses. Despite the topic he presents his testimony slowly and gently to the spectators in front of him; he’s talking...

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January 22, 2014

Syrian art flourishes in Lebanon as galleries in Damascus close

In one of his drawings, Syrian political cartoonist Ali Ferzat has drawn a picture of Bashar Al Assad announcing reforms, but instead of speaking, Assad is blowing bubbles through...

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January 22, 2014

China Reaches out to Egypt, Culturally and Economically

As much of the world focuses on China’s change of political leadership this week, across the globe the emerging superpower quietly expand into other areas. On Wednesday, deep within...

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January 22, 2014

Photographs offer a new way to look at Gaza conflict

Beyond Abbas’s pictures of Iranian revolutionaries burning a portrait of the Shah in 1978, and past the stereotypical images of veiled women with mobile phones, a collection of photographs...

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January 22, 2014

"Despite" Exhibition by Arts Canteen: 16 Contemporary Palestinian Artists Under one Roof

Walls and checkpoints in occupied Palestine mean that artists from Gaza and the West Bank, though from the same country, may never actually meet each other; art, therefore, can...

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January 22, 2014

London a growing haven for contemporary Arab art

As the bloody uprising in Syria continues to rage, Ayyam Gallery in Damascus does more than just show artwork; it has become a safe haven for artists. The gallery...

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January 22, 2014

'In My Mother's Arms,' the story of Iraq's orphans

A group of young boys gather around a TV set listening to the presenter as she delivers news of bombings in the Al Sadr neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Images...

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