THE MOVING BIOGRAPHIES PODCAST | POWERED BY AFIKRA

*CHAPTERS* 0:00 - Introduction  0:45 - Samia Halaby 1:36 - Mona Saudi  2:30 - Samia and Mona’s friendship  3:36 - The Rice Paper Scroll, capturing Mona’s home and studio  10:38 - Drawing in movement, cinematic creation  14:35 - Mona and the PLO    ****** ABOUT IAAW  ******‎ The Institute of Art in the Arab World (IAAW) at the Lebanese American University is dedicated to the advancement of contempo...

*CHAPTERS* 0:00 - Introduction  1:32 - Evelyne Bustros  2:41 - Entanglement of Evelyne’s biography with material culture  3:13 - Archival work  8:24 - Moving biography  14:37 - International exhibitions   ****** ABOUT LAWHA ******‎ LAWHA (Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943) is a research project hosted by the Orient-Institut Beir...

*CHAPTERS* 0:00 - Introduction  0:22 - Afaf Zurayk  1:11 - Helen Khal  2:08 - Afaf’s poem ‘Thoughts’  2:37 - Afaf’s encounter with Helen  3:56 - Helen’s transparency  5:30 - Lightness and transparency in both Afaf and Helen’s work  6:51 - Lines and edges in Helen and Afaf’s work  9:37 - Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s/70s 10:37 - Helen Khal’s writing and courage  11:53 - Breaking boundaries as...

*CHAPTERS* 0:00 - Introduction, Daniel  1:52 - What kind of history Daniel works on 4:54 - Napoleon death day, writing a biography 11:23 - What was your ultimate ‘entry point’ for writing this biography? 16:27 - Art history and history and using images/paintings  30:24 - Materiality and biography  33:12 - Yvonne  37:46 - Writing a magazine’s biography  52:21 - Using and leveraging materiality  55:...

*CHAPTERS*  0:00 - Introduction  0:26 - Greta Naufal 1:28 - Yvette Achkar 2:27 - La peinture selon Yvette  3:03 - Comment Greta et Yvette se sont rencontrées  5:47 - Yvette avec les élèves  6:50 - L’art abstrait au Liban  7:52 - L’abstraction et l’expressionnisme abstrait d’Yvette  10:00 - Son processus créatif    ****** ABOUT IAAW  ******‎ The Institute of Art in the Arab World (IAAW) at the Leba...

*CHAPTERS* 0:00 - Introduction  0:59 - Moving Biographies  1:22 - Panellist introduction  3:13 - Amine El Bacha’s estate  10:25 - Visions for the estate and foundation  16:46 - Paul Guiragossian’s estate  25:22 - Saloua Raouda Choucair  33:59 - Connected biographies & how involved were your parents in setting the visions for their foundations?  39:36 - The mixed emotions of preserving your parent’...

  *CHAPTERS* 0:00 - Introduction 0:15 - Samar Mogharbel 0:57 - The life and work of Dorothy Salhab Kazemi 2:00 - Dorothy’s sources of inspiration & unique visual language 2:46 - Samar on Dorothy 3:46 - Dorothy’s Sculpture from 1974 5:04 - Lebanese Clay 8:46 - Dorothy’s work as avant-garde 9:43 - Dorothy’s glaze 10:07 - Dorothy’s legacy and bridging east & west 10:58 - Dorothy’s last sculptures   *...