Al Jadid the Journal of Record on Arab Culture
Now Celebrating its 21st Anniversary
Art
Abstract Sculpture Cropping up in Beirut’s Public Spaces
Increasingly more public sculpture, both representational and purely abstract, is beginning to appear in the public spaces of Beirut. Two years ago, a huge abstract sculpture carved in white Italian Carrarsa marble with two inverted L-shaped handles to the side and two vertical connecting blades thrusting forward to the front, was placed on a pedestal in the popular Hamam Al Askari area on the Corniche in Ras Beirut. The sculpture was set on a large space three steps up from street level on the crossroad of two main streets.
A Treasured Mystery
The Mediterranean of the Phoenicians:
From Carthage to Tyre
November 6, 2007 - April 20, 2008
Institut du Monde Arabe
The Art Of Islam
Knights in the Islamic World:
Collection from the Furûssiya Art Foundation
Out of Place: Israel in the Photography of Ron Kelley
Ethnography is the West’s invention. Are there forms of representation that do not have the same effect of objectifying? What parallels can we see between a documentary photographic work or collection on the Other and ethnographies produced in the West for the West? With a particular interest in how the Middle East is represented, how culture is created, how images are invented, and how the subjects are framed, I was drawn to the exhibit “Transitions: Russians, Ethiopians, and Bedouins in Israel’s Negev Desert,” being held at UCLA’s Fowler Museum of Cultural History from March 1 to Oct
Faces Transcending Time: Gibran Exhibition Reveals Rare Drawings, Paintings
The idea of organizing an exhibition of Gibran Khalil Gibran’s visual art at the Soursuk Museum in Beirut was first conceived almost three decades ago. The plan became a reality on the eve of the new millennium, delayed by the Lebanese Civil War. “Gibran in the Horizons of Drawing,” although long overdue, is worth the wait.
Lenses of Emily Jacir Document Human Reality of Ordinary Palestinians
There is one word that best describes the thread running through Palestinian artist Emily Jacir's conceptually based photographs, videos, and installations: generosity. Whether Jacir is tackling the issues of the restricted lives of Palestinians, the complex reality of occupation, or issues concerning the commodification of women in the West, her approach is motivated by intelligence, patience, and above all, generosity.
The Islamic Milieu
Etched into the rock walls of the steep Kaddisha Valley of Lebanon are a dozen Christian monasteries. Among them one finds superb examples of "Islamic" art with filigreed windows and scalloped doorways. Only the rooftop crosses reveal that these are Christian holy places. Another excellent example of "Islamic" art is the Great Synagogue in Aleppo, Syria with its striped stone walls and arched courtyard. Through a wrought iron window, one glimpses the Hebrew text carved into the marble wall which shows that it is, in fact, a synagogue and not a mosque.
Arab Architectural Heritage Between Mirrors And Idols
Looking Within And Beyond
The Tradition-Modernity Debate
When the issue of reconstruction was raised at the end of the Lebanese Civil War, the discussion focused on the architectural heritage and its connection to memory, as well as on the relationship of this heritage with modernization and modernity.
Egypt and the Mind of Adli Rizkallah’s
A retrospective show in Cairo from October 1 and until November 15, 2000 featured 600 works by Adli Rizkallah. Rizkallah is a painter and works solely in watercolors. Especially today when artists tend to mix all mediums in the same work, his loyalty to watercolors is unique; he is a man of an infinity of works in one medium.
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