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حول العرب وصحوة الفن: تحذيرات من الشعوب المخدَّرة

Dec 02 2012
[ لوحة للفنان الفلسطيني سليمان منصور بعنوان

في خضم التعليقات حول امبريالية المحسوبية الأميركية، والمفهوم الأنثوي للأمن، والحركة الديمقراطية في المكسيك يظهر مقال "الفن والصحوة العربية"، لنعمة خليل في Foreign Policy Focus  في الثاني من آب، 2012 كوصف مضيء وممتع للانتاج الفني الذي بدأ يستحوذ على الاهتمام العالمي خلال "الصحوة العربية." لقد شهدنا الكثير من الاحتفاء بالفن العربي منذ 2001[i]، ولكن وضع مقال خليل في منتدى أميركي- للناطقين بالانجليزية عن السياسة الخارجية يثير أسئلة عن العلاقات ...

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On Arabs and the Art Awakening: Warnings from a Narcoleptic Population

Aug 31 2012
[Suleiman Mansour,

Amidst commentaries on American crony capitalism, security feminism, and the democracy movement in Mexico, “Art and the Arab Awakening,” Nama Khalil’s article in Foreign Policy in Focus (2 August 2012), stands out with its colorful, playful, joyful descriptions of the art production that has come to international attention during the “Arab Awakening.” Many celebrations of Arab art have been pouring forth since 2001[i], but the placement of Khalil’s article in a forum for ...

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Bio

Kirsten Scheid

 

Kirsten Scheid is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the American University of Beirut. She specializes in modern and contemporary Arab art. She is completing a book on the modern art movement in Lebanon and is currently conducting comparative ethnographic research in Palestinian and Lebanese art production since the "New Middle East" was initiated in the early 1990s. 

“There is no doubt that the new constitution represents a concession to the Moroccan protest movement ... Yet, this should not obscure the fact that the monarch strictly controlled and managed the whole reform process.”
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