Transidentities in the Arab world, a round table this Thursday at the IMA

Chaza Charafeddine, Fruit Lady (Divine Comedy series), 2010. Ila janeb habibi (Next to habibi), a new thematic cycle of Thursdays at the IMA, was designed by professor of Arabic literature and translator Frédéric Lagrange in response to the exhibition “Habibi, the revolutions of love”. 2nd in this cycle, the round table entitled “Transidentities in the … Read more

The Gulf, new horizon or impasse for Arab culture?

It seems so far away the time when Cairo was considered the “Mother of the universe”, Damascus as “the beating heart of Arabism” and Beirut as the “capital of Arab culture”. It was so long ago! Cairo is nothing more than a crawling megalopolis, left to its own devices, to urban anarchy and the arbitrariness … Read more

A film about the female universe of Arab countries wins SorsiCorti, an audience award to a Sicilian

She is 16 and a young mother who lives alone in Cairo with her child after her husband left for work to a distant city feeling all the discomfort towards the environment that surrounds her. It is called “Khadiga” and it is the winning film of the sixteenth edition of SorsiCorti, the international short film … Read more

A film on the female universe of Arab countries wins SorsiCorti, an audience award to a Sicilian

She is 16 and a young mother who lives alone in Cairo with her child after her husband left for work to a distant city feeling all the discomfort towards the environment that surrounds her. It is called “Khadiga” and it is the winning film of the sixteenth edition of SorsiCorti, the international short film … Read more

Weekend in Extremadura: Badajoz installs the Arab market and Manolo García arrives in Mérida

Estremadura It is a land where culture and art do not rest. For this reason, we present the plans for this weekend, in which interesting proposals of the cultural scene which will take place in different places in the region of Extremadura. Extremadura 2022 concerts: music refreshes the hot Extremaduran summer Stone & Music Festival … Read more

Why Arab Fans Love House of the Dragon Despite Game of Thrones’ ‘Horrible’ Ending

LOS ANGELES: Stanley Kubrick once said that JRR Tolkien’s cult trilogy ‘The Lord of the Rings’ was impossible to make into a movie. It’s hard to imagine what the great director would have thought of Amazon’s new billion-dollar event series, based on dry footnotes at the end of the third book. “The Lord of the … Read more