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  • Feminist art from Pakistan

    Thoughtful, provocative, chic: Shehzil Malik's fresh aesthetic seeks social transformation in a conservative, male-dominated society – sometimes by deliberately flaunting social conventions

  • Mohamed Abla was the first visual artist from Egypt to receive the Goethe Medal awarded by the Goethe-Institut, the highest award of foreign cultural policy in Germany.
    Mohamed Abla awarded Goethe Medal

    Telling stories through art

    Mohamed Abla is the first visual artist from Egypt to be awarded the Goethe-Institut’s Goethe Medal, Germany’s highest honour in the area of foreign cultural policy. Stefan Weidner sheds some light on the artist’s work

  • Berlin's Human Rights Film Festival

    "Yemen's Banksy" – Murad Subay creates art against war

    Yemen remains the world's worst humanitarian crisis, say humanitarian organisations. At the recent Human Rights Film Festival in Berlin, street artist Murad Subay commented on the horrors of war. Elizabeth Grenier reports

  • ″Art of Freedom. Freedom of Art″ in Tunisia

    Carving out a niche between terror and bureaucracy

    Resulting from political changes in the wake of the Arab Spring five years ago, Tunisian artists have gained more freedom. But, as Sarah Mersch writes, those rights are under threat – from religious fanaticism and government pressure

  • Art and revolution in the Arab world in 2015

    Struggling against the restoration of "order"

    Egypt's Al-Fann Midan (Art is a Public Square) festival, which took place for the first time in April 2011, was one of the most vibrant post-revolutionary spaces for public art in Egypt. But four years after millions of Egyptians took to the streets, the popular festival has disappeared. Marcia Lynx Qualey takes a closer look at the link between art and revolution in Egypt and the Arab world in 2015

  • Tahrir and Taksim – Part II

    Soundtrack of two revolutions

    Tahrir and Taksim: two squares, one new culture of protest? In the second part of this two-part report, Amin Farzanefar looks at the how street art, music and film became essential parts of the new protest culture

  • Tahrir and Taksim – Part I

    A new culture of protest

    In 2011 and 2013, two major cities in the Islamic world were rocked by popular unrest. The extended demonstrations seemed to usher in a new culture of protest. In this two-part report, Amin Farzanefar looks at how the art and music scenes changed in Cairo and Istanbul as a result of these protests

  • Two women and a graffiti (photo: DW / Bettina Kolb)
    Graffiti in Tunisia

    A Weapon for Civil Resistance

    After the revolution, Tunisia pours its troubles on its walls. Artists celebrate the people's victory through mural blows. Graffiti invades the cities' walls. Thameur Mekki reports from Tunis

  • Graffiti in Tunis (photo: Sarah Mersch)
    Tunisia's Art Scene after the Overthrow of Ben Ali

    Politics as Inspiration

    Activism and art go hand in hand nowadays in Tunisia. The young and politicized artistic scene in the Mediterranean country has flourished since the dictator Ben Ali fled Tunisia in January. Sarah Mersch offers an overview from the capital Tunis

  • Blouzaat.18: ''Who is in who is out'', Ahmad Sabbagh, silk-screen print on canvas, 29x29 cm, “Expired… Dying New World Exhebition”, Amman, Jordan, 2009 (source: From Here To Fame Publishing)
    Modern Arabic Graffiti

    Ancient calligraphy meets politics in modern Arabic graffiti

    Arabic artists push the boundaries of graffiti with their calligraphic styles and political messages. A new book published in Germany looks at what makes Arabic street art unique – and just how powerful it can be. Cinnamon Nippard reports

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