Vision, August 2017 The aim is laudable: to promote and celebrate the many accomplishments of Middle Eastern women via a “peacebuilding exhibition”. The location, though, is absolutely spectacular: 31 of the region’s premier contemporary women artists displaying their work […]
Vision, August 2017 Serena Williams. Michelle Wie. Simone Biles. The female faces of Nike are legends of their sport, international icons when they step off the court, course or gymnasium. So when Emirati Yasmin […]
The National, July 2017 One of Fahrelnissa Zeid’s former students is trying to explain the artist’s legacy. “She was the East and the West, combined in harmony,” the student says in a film that accompanies […]
The National, June 2017 In Egypt, the revolution wasn’t televised, it was online. And in 2011, Omar Robert Hamilton was in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, filming famous footage for The Mosireen Collective he cofounded that […]
The National, June 2017 It is always a huge challenge to write a novel about musicians. There are, after all, enough you-couldn’t-make-this-up real-world tales of rapid success, failure and excess to make most fictional stories […]