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Issue 005 April 1997: Painting in Arabic

  • Massacre of Quana Remembered: Click here for details
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  • SUDAN: Art and Poetry By Rashid Diab
    When the Greeks occupied Egypt, they called all lands south of Egypt 'Ethiopia'. The Romans, who followed the Greeks in Egypt, adopted the same name. Click here for more details.
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  • On The Margin Of Jason Saloum's Exhibit. Click here for more details.
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  • MODERN EGYPTIAN ART - The Emergence of a National Style
    • Egypt is a land of polarities: a fertile black valley juxtaposed to and sands, a temperate Mediterranean coast that dissolves into the African continent. It is an agricultural oasis that sheltered a traditional way of life for thousands of years, and an intercontinental crossroads open to every external cultural and political influence. Click here for more details.
  • Check out Khawater-na (Our Thoughts). Click here for more details.
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  • Icônes et Iconographie (lire "Les Icônes" de Maria Donadeo, Médiaspaul et Editions Paulines) Par Sami Khourie. Click here for more details.
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    In addition to the above, this issue has literary retrospective and OurWorld's regular sections: including exciting and practical Linx, Speakout and more.

    ART, CRITICISM AND OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERS

    By Osama Abusitta

    In the Arab World art is abundant. There is outstanding work everywhere you go from the coast of Morocco to the dunes of Abu Dhabi and from upper Sudan to the Northern reaches of Iraq. What is in short supply however is a critical response to all that art. I would be at a loss to name more than a handful of books in Arabic about contemporary Arab art, I would be able to name a critic or two that I find intriguing. But I could also name several who have taken a surrealistic approach to criticism that one would mistake their critique with translations of Andre Derain's poems.

    In the West, museum bookstores have plenty of books about the Arab World, but they are all about rug making here or pot making there. There is nothing about what is happening in the fine arts.

    This issue of Alamouna presents several critical articles about art in the Arab World. Rashid Diab spans the scene in Sudan with a keen eye on the arts and a sensitive ear to poetry. From Egypt, Liliane Karnouk, author of Modern Egyptian Art, writes about The Emergence of A National Style. And, from New York, artist and art critic Osama Khatlan, writes (in Arabic) about a recent show by Jayce Salloum.

    Finally, we would like to welcome an addition to Arab web sites: Arab Art Exchange. This site, totally dedicated to contemporary Arab art, provides a venue for artists to exhibit their work and for the art enthusiasts or collectors a source of information about Arab art. In addition to images, biographies and links, Arab Art Exchange provides special exhibitions and critical reviews.

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