“Sisyphus,at this moment, has the face and the tongue of an Arab”
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji
Graphic and Art Installation Artist
Category Archives: art
Mathaf Arab Museum Of Modern Art In Doha, Qatar
On-longing: a project by Saba Innab
Saba Innab
Saba Innab is an artist and architect whose interests in urbanism and the production of space are reflected through her work. Born in 1980, Innab graduated with a BA in Architecture from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2004. In 2009, Innab joined the team working on the reconstruction of Nahr El Bared camp in Lebanon. Innab has taken part in a number of regional and international exhibitions, including the Rotterdam Biennale for Architecture (2009), a solo show at Agial Gallery, Beirut (2011) and most recently a solo show in Darat al Funun in Amman in 2011. Innab has been awarded several grants and residencies, including a production grant by the Arab Fund for Art and Culture (AFAC) (2009) for her project On-longing. Innab is a participant of the inaugural 2011-12 edition of the Home Workspace Program, Beirut
“Objects” – Documentary on Hassan Sharif
City – مدينة
1981
Hassan Sharif
Considered by many to be the founding father of the UAE’s contemporary art scene, Hassan Shariff‘s work is increasingly concerned with the negative effects of consumerism.
Hassan Sharif was born in 1951 and he lives and works in Dubai. He graduated from the Byam Shaw School of Art in London and published cartoons in newspapers and magazines through the 1970’s. He has played a significant role in the UAE arts’ scene, founding the Emirates Fine Art Society, and the Art Atelier in the Youth Theatre and Arts in Dubai. He has exhibited internationally, including Cuba, Holland, Egypt, and Germany. Closely associated with The Flying House – UAE, his works are in the permanent collection of Mathaf / Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, and in art museums in Sharjah and Holland. He has authored four books: New Art, Sharp Tools for Making Art, Concept of Art and Al Khamsa.
WRITING ON THE WALLS: TRANSITION, A PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES BY MYRIAM ABDELAZIZ
Typographic Matchmaking in the City
A documentary film directed by Jan de Bruin and edited by Ans Kanen. Music by Philipp Ernsting
Jan de Bruin Productions and the Khatt Foundation
Shot on several locations in Amsterdam, Dubai (UAE), Sharjah (UAE), Pingjum (Friesland), and Doha (Qatar), Typographic Matchmaking in the City: the Film follows the 5 teams of Dutch and Arab designers that participated in the project over a period of 18 months while they were traveling, working together, and presenting their work in progress to culturally and professionally diverse audiences. The film makes visible not only the design process, the struggles and challenges of the designers, but also addresses the larger topics of bringing two cultures into a dialogue through design. The personalities of the designers show through their collaborative process, discussions, interactions and the final design outcomes. the film gives a very humane and personal portrait of the process of creation and creativity.
Fragmentation (1)
Arab art fragmentation is a series of articles, a form of population segregation. Caused by our fragmented understanding of what is Arab Art.
Marwa Adel
Photography and computer graphic
h: 80 x w: 184 cm / h: 31.5 x w: 72.4 in
Cairo’s graffiti revolution
Source: cbsnews.com
Credit: AP Photo/Nasser Nasser
n this Tuesday, March 13, 2012, photo, a boy watches an Egyptian female artist and activist at work on the “No Walls Street” during the graffiti campaign to paint a reproduction of the streets behind them and targeted the concrete blocks walls in downtown Cairo, Egypt. After Egypt’s ruling military sealed off streets around Cairo’s Tahrir Square with walls of imposing concrete blocks, a group of artists decided to reopen the avenues on their own, in the public imagination, at least.
The Persian Carpet Phenomenon
Thoughts about Orientalism and Architecture
In Orient, Orientalism is a subject of many mixed feeling and variable viewpoints, viewpoints that spread from being considered “The Cultural Side of Western Colonization” till being made “The Most Neutral and Reliable Sources for Understanding Oriental Cultures”. And many of those who take these two points or any in between do so from their own political, social and cultural stands (ex. Liberals against Conservatives) something is not restricted to Orientalism but also to Politic, Economic, Sociology or any subject where West is involved, beside all and just to justify their points they pragmatically switch between them (sometimes West is a good source and sometimes it is not); examples are many from silly as “modern western haircuts are bad and suits are good”, till extremist: “some Islamist Jihadist movements do forbid all western products like democracy or even refrigerators but allow all kinds of western weapons”.
Hassan Fathy (Between Art & Architecture)
Is there any difference between art and architecture? It is impossible to conceive of the history of art in exclusion from that of architecture.
Hassan Fathy was one of those pioneer Arab architects that touched on art 
