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Rebel Girl
Egyptian singer Maryam Saleh is bringing some raw power to the Cairo underground Egyptian singer Maryam Saleh is a fiery figure in Cairo's underground music scene. Blending Egypt's musical heritage...
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A Regional Resurgence
Now entering its third year, Mathaf is sending out a message to the rest of the world that fits with Qatar's dynamic new role On a flat dusty outback of Qatar that will soon be part of Doha’s rapidly...
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Island Art
Artist Ali Lamu uses recycled dhow sails as a community-boosting canvas for his Kenyan hometown An Omani protectorate during the 19th and 20th century, vestiges of Lamu’s golden age can still be seen...
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Under the Carpet
Faig Ahmed's psychedelic carpets are shifting the stereotypes of Azerbaijan In his studio on the outskirts of the Old City of Baku, Faig Ahmed is hard at work deconstructing an Azerbaijani carpet, as...
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Facing The Mountains
On the outskirts of Marrakech, a collective farm offers its residents a simple respite from city life Thirty kilometres south of Marrakech, the road that leads from the red city to the foothills of...
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Twenty-five years on
Darat al Funun is celebrating this year. It’s 25 years since the art centre, a 4000 square metre hive of buildings dedicated to the visual arts, began its patronage in Amman, and 20 years since it made...
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RHIZOMA: Sara Raza
In collaboration with Edge of Arabia, Brownbook presents a series of interviews with the artists participating in RHIZOMA, an exhibition curated by Edge of Arabia at this year's La Biennale di Venezia...
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Urban Series | Noureddine Amir
In collaboration with Cadillac, we travel to Marrakech to speak with Noureddine Amir, a visual artist and avant-garde designer who owns couture house, Villa Amir.
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Aloha Arabia
Doris Duke’s Shangri La mansion is where the exoticism of Islamic architecture meets the serenity of the Hawaiian landscape Nestled on a 4.9 acre oceanfront lot near Diamond Head, just outside of...
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RHIZOMA: Telfaz11
In collaboration with Edge of Arabia, Brownbook presents a series of interviews with the artists participating in RHIZOMA, an exhibition curated by Edge of Arabia at this year's La Biennale di Venezia...
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Urban Series | Alia Al-Senussi
In collaboration with Cadillac, we travel to London to speak with Alia Al-Senussi, a member of Libya's royal family, who is helping to integrate her country into the art and culture boom that the...
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Vinyl Destination
Ali Bakhtiari has turned a passion for Persian pop into a new book, dedicated to the soundtracks of Iran's recent past One of the greatest allures of today’s Iran is the collective perception of it –...
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RHIZOMA | Nauf Alhimiary
In collaboration with Edge of Arabia, Brownbook presents a series of interviews with the artists participating at this year's 55th Biennale di Venezia in an exhibition entitled RHIZOMA. In the third...
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Out on its Own
Some come for the light, some for the views, some for old-fashioned decadence: the seaside city of Tangier has a magnetism that's entirely its own Clinging to the northwest corner of Africa, Tangier...
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At Home in Suburbia
In the suburbs of Los Angeles, Egyptian artist Sherin Guirguis feels her paintings have found a home in the margins What better artist to describe the diasporic experience than Sherin Guirguis? The...
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RHIZOMA: Shaweesh
In collaboration with Edge of Arabia, Brownbook presents a series of interviews with the artists participating in RHIZOMA, an exhibition curated by Edge of Arabia at this year's La Biennale di Venezia...
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Keeping His Word
Writer Shumon Basar knows how to keep busy, from working on a never-ending novel to curating roaming exhibitions For Shumon Basar, home smells like distance. ‘I moved to the UK with my mother in 1976...
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Virtual Calligraphy
A new mobile app is the world's first virtual library for Arabic typography and calligraphy The world's first user-generated mobile museum of Arabic typography and calligraphy was launched earlier...
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Eating in Ramallah
How is slow food making an impact in the West Bank? A local NGO has taken the food revolution to the underground If you visit the Majhoul Seasonal Restaurant in Ramallah, don’t expect to eat at the...
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Trankat Street
An art space and residency programme is shedding light on an overlooked city An art space in the heart of Tétouan's old medina in northern Morocco was launched recently in an effort to highlight the...
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