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Jan 1, 2014
[Giorgione`s \"Three Philosophers\" (1507). Kunsthistorisches Museum: Gemäldegalerie. Image via Wikimedia Commons.]. [Giorgione`s \"Three Philosophers\" (1507). Kunsthistorisches Museum: Gemäldegalerie. Image via Wikimedia Commons.].

2013 Culture Highlights

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As Mark Twain wrote on New Year’s Day in 1863, “Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” Before readers embark on that treacherous path, Jadaliyya Culture offers a selection of 2013 highlights for a preemptive enrichment of souls and minds.

Below are twenty-five entries that have sharpened critical readings of culture. Stay tuned for more reviews, essays, excerpts, translations, featured artists, and interviews in 2014! 

Saadi Youssef: Genesis 34, translated by Sinan Antoon

Sargon Boulos: Two Poems, translated by Sinan Antoon 

Omar al-Kikli: Prison Sketches, translated by Sebastian Anstis

Nazik al-Mala`ika`s Revolt Against the Sun, translated by Emily Drumsta 

Negm Mat by Chris Stone and Elliott Colla

Amir Tag Elsir`s Ebola `76, translated by Maia Tabet

Two from the Counter-Revolution, short stories by Sherif Thabet, translated by Elliott Colla 

Ibrahim Aslan`s Slice of Family News, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette 

Rabai al-Madhoun`s Returning to Khan Yunis, translated by Elliott Colla 

Remembering A Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Geography by Ella Habiba Shohat 

Derrida and the Crisis of French Zionism by Andrew Ryder

Regarding the Torture of Others in "Zero Dark Thirty" by Elisabeth Jaquette 

Ben Affleck`s "Argo": A Movie about a Movie by Hosam Aboul-Ela 

The Square: So Close Yet So Far by Hélène Barthélemy

Revolutionary Memory: Bahman Ghobadi’s Rhino Season and Mohammadreza Farzad’s Falgoosh by Kamran Rastegar

A Leopard in Winter: An Interview with Syrian Director Nabil Maleh by Alia Yunis

Continuity from Rupture: Deir Yassin’s Absent Presence in an Unmade Film by Hanan Toukan

Permission to Caption by Amahl Bishara 

“The awakening of a radical reality”? Reflections on PhotoCairo 5 by Yasser Alwan 

 A Portrait of Tunisian Artist Nicene Kossentini by MedrarTV

Allegory of a Revolution: José Clemente Orozco’s “The Trench” by Maymanah Farhat

Alexandria Re-Imagined: The Revolution through Art by Amro Ali 

Zaha Hadid: Black Square, White Cube, and the Twenty-First Century Museum by Maymanah Farhat

Marriage Contracts and the Mashhadi Jewish Community: Art as a Second Identity in the Nineteenth Century by Beeta Baghoolizadeh

Under Morsi, Red Lines Gone Gray by Jonathan Guyer

More about the featured artist:

Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco (otherwise known as Giorgione) was an Italian painter during the High Renaissance in Venice who is widely credited with creating the first landscape in Western painting (The Tempest, 1508)—the importance of which lies in the dramatic move away from art in the service of the church or with direct reference to the state. Little is known about the life of the Italian master, as it is believed he died at the age of thirty-three, making the documentation of his modest yet historically significant oeuvre particularly difficult. Among the handful of works attributed to the painter, several are thought to have been also worked on by Titian, the towering colorist and equally refined draftsman whose portraits, historical compositions, and mythological scenes established the Venetian school and later influenced generations of European painters. Giorgione’s subject matter has perplexed scholars for centuries, including that which appears in Three Philosophers.  
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A Scenography Workshop by Hussein Baydoun

A Scenography workshop by Hussein Baydoun

8-16 September 2013

Falaki Theater, Cairo, Egypt

 

Hussein Baydoun is a Lebanese artist, architect, and scenographer who is known for his unique approach to set design. Baydoun frequently participates in the creation and development of performances from their early stages with the view that scenography is an essential component to the creation of theatrical work, one no less important than the script. His designs are often inspired by the performance spaces in which he works, where he creates fascinating sets from whatever is available as he challenges conventional notions about theater production, such as in his most recent performance "Alice," which was produced in collaboration with Lebanese playwright and director Sawsan Bou Khaled. In September, Baydoun returned to Cairo to lead a scenography workshop following the same vision. At the American University in Cairo`s Falaki Theater, he worked with six upcoming set designers, in addition to amateurs, on creating imaginative environments from the remnants of old sets and other discarded objects. This video highlights the vision and development of the workshop as Baydoun describes the aim of his teaching methods.  


 

      

     [This video is produced by Medrar TV and is featured as part of a new partnership with Jadaliyya Culture.]