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January 22, 2014

Bringing contemporary Moroccan art to London

Finding a riad-style warehouse teeming with beautiful Moroccan furniture isn’t quite what you expect when stepping off the tube at Greenford in west London. But it is in a...

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January 22, 2014

#withoutwords: emerging Syrian artists at the P21 Gallery, London

There is something unnerving about Fadi Al Jabour’s doll. Painted using oils in the abstract realistic style, from a distance she is a cute with round cheeks and blond...

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January 22, 2014

UK hip hop producer to take recording studio to Gaza

Dai Dream may be a British hip hop producer from Liverpool, but he has a huge fan base in the occupied territories. “I love Palestine and I love the...

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January 22, 2014

The untold story of an inspired Gaza youth leader

“The world used to think that Gaza knows nothing about life except the mass killings and destruction that it witnesses, but I wanted to show the opposite ,” Maysara...

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January 22, 2014

Photographing Gaza: Paul Hansen and the World Press Photo Award

In the winning image, a group of men carry the bodies of two young Palestinian children wrapped in funeral shrouds down an alley in Jabaliya refugee camp in the...

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January 22, 2014

The Jameel Prize at the V&A where Islamic tradition meets contemporary art

In the updated version of his book Covering Islam, originally published in 1981, renowned Palestinian writer and intellectual Edward Said voiced concern that “the mere use of the label...

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January 22, 2014

New exhibition features Palestinian artwork created out of Israel's tools of oppression

Although Palestinians have lived under Israeli occupation and apartheid for over six decades, Western narratives usually paint them as hateful and violent, as if they were born with hatred...

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January 22, 2014

UNESCO postpones Jewish exhibit fearing it will endanger current peace talks

The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation UNESCO has decided to postpone opening a Jewish exhibition at its headquarters in Paris after Arab states protested. UNESCO’s director general Irina...

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January 22, 2014

Russia steps up milirary aid to Syria, Reuters

Russia has stepped up its military assistance to Syria, including armored vehicles and drones and precision-guided bombs, informed sources told Reuters news agency. A number of sources told Reuters...

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January 8, 2014

Egyptian activists accuse current government of undermining justice (Copy)

One of Egypt’s leading youth activist movements announced on Monday the death of the transitional roadmap that was proposed in the wake of the military coup against the democratically...

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