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A feminist artist and activist hailing from Saudi Arabia, Ms. Saffaa has consistently utilized her artistic platform to advocate for the rights of women both in her home country and abroad. After moving to Australia to pursue university education, Saffaa encountered

Street art in all of its forms has long been associated with subversive goals and a compelling aesthetic. Created by individuals and communities who strived to push back against oppressive systems of power, contribute to civil and political discourses they were otherwise excluded from, and..

This week’s Jadaliyya "Media on Media" roundup delves into several topics affecting the Middle East and North Africa region. Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ continues to make headlines, prompting a series of interesting debates and discussions. Security researcher Ryan Lackey

Don Karl and Basma Hamdy, editors, Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution. Berlin: From Here to Fame Publishing, 2014.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

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The graffiti and street art of revolutionary Egypt have been researched many times over by now. Journalists and scholars have explored t..

The third issue of B|ta’arof magazine, the Street Culture Issue, brings together popular and high art, searching for the extraordinary in the everyday. Its pages feature previously unseen work by Iranian visual art giant Ardeshir Mohasses and up-and-coming L...

Street art has played an important role throughout the Egyptian revolution. As many observers have pointed out, such art is more than mere representation that inspires mobilization. It is that, certainly, but it is also an act of protest in and of itself. It is not only artists who make this cla..

Horreya or Kharya

23-29 December 2013

Hotel Viennoise, Cairo

"Horreya or Kharya" is a group show, which plays on the words "freedom" and "shit" as they sh..

Brain Damage

An Exhibition by Kalb Balady

16 Novemeber - 15 December

Darb 1718, Cairo 

Brain Damage is the first public exhibition by the Kalb Balady

Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle, editors, Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image. Bloomington: Indiana Universit..

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 wi..