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In this episode of Outline, we're joined by author, illustrator, and film producer Marya Zarif, who's known for her animated works that highlight Syrian narratives. The conversation delves into her background, motivations for creating the award-winning Syrian animated series and films Dounia and "Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo," and the emotional impact these works have on audiences. Zarif shar...

في هذه الحلقة من اوتلاين، نستكشف الرحلة الملهمة لكولكتيف كراسي، المجموعة التي تسعى لدعم الفنانين في حلب من خلال خلق مساحات للتعبير والتعاون. تعرّف على تجارب ناتالي بحادي، من دراستها لإدارة الفنون والثقافة إلى إطلاق كولكتيف كراسي في عام 2022. تتناول المحادثة التحديات التي تواجه بناء مجتمعات فنية وسط العقبات القمعية السياسية، البيروقراطية والاجتماعية، وأهمية إعادة الاتصال بالهوية من خلال الفن، وكيف...

This episode of Outline is the first in an Aleppo special hosted by Sabine Boghossian. In this episode, our host is joined by visual artist Christine Gedeon. Born in Aleppo, Syria, and raised in the US, Gedeon now divides her time between Berlin and New York. Her work has focused on her family history in Syria pre-civil war. The discussion delves into her latest projects, including her book "Alepp...

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Lizzy Vartanian is an embroidery artist based in London. Much of her work is inspired by roots in Lebanon, Armenia and Syria, transforming 20th-century family photographs into embroidered works of art. Connect with Lizzy 👉 https://www.instagram.com/lizzyvartanian/?hl=en-gb Hosted by Sabine Boghossian 👉 https://www.instagram.com/sabineboghossian/ FOLLOW & RATE THE OUTLINE PODCAST  » Apple Podcast...

Hana Almilli is a multimedia artist, textile designer, and poet based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her research-based practice explores the idea of recreating affected, and resurrected identities through the material culture of textile and assemblages. Belonging to Turkish, Syrian, Kurdish, and Saudi lineage, she was persuaded with questions of identity. Enquiring into perpetual alienation, her ideolo...

Being a director, winning the Angénieux Encouragement Award at Cannes, navigating the film industry, and differences between working on ads, TV and cinema: award-winning Egyptian director Haya Khairat gives us an insider view on life behind the camera.  In conversation with Mikey, Haya shares her experiences grappling with cynicism, being a women director, and keeping her passion for cinema alive....

What does it mean to work across textile and digital mediums? Nour Hage, award-winning British-Lebanese designer and artist, delves into her practice, exploring themes of West-Asian Identities, NFTs and Web3. We discuss traversing the physical and digital realms and why she chooses digital art for her personal exploration. We also explore the meaning of the evil eye and misunderstanding/seeking to...

Fadi Bou Karam talks about the history of Levantine etymologies and their possible origins. He discusses the influence of the Ottomans on the way certain words are pronounced, notably in Lebanese Arabic. The words include fruits and vegetables, such as artichoke, orange, loquat & more. Fadi Bou Karam is a photographer based in Beirut, Lebanon. He was born and raised in Beirut, and growing up in a...

Mary Ann Peters talks about her art work and productions that stem from the histories of the Middle East. She uses watercolor, gouache, and walnut ink to create pieces that tell stories. Mary Ann Peters is an artist whose combined studio work, installations, public art projects and arts activism have made noted contributions to the Northwest and nationally for over 30 years. Most recently her work...

Wafa Ghnaim talked about the process of establishing Tatreez and Tea and how embroidery plays an important role in the Palestinian society. Wafa Ghnaim is a Palestinian researcher, author and educator who began learning embroidery from her mother, award-winning artist Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim , when she was two years old. Her first book, “ Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian...

في هذه الحلقة من رؤوس أقلام٬ تحدثت دينا محمد عن سلسلة كتبها المصورة شبيك لبيك التي نالت على جوائز عدة في فئة الروايات المصورة. دينا محمد، رسامة ومصممة مصرية. بدأت في مجال الكوميكس في سن الـ١٨ لما نشرت سلسلة الكوميكس الرقمية “قاهرة” اللي كانت تتناول القضايا الإجتماعية من منظور سوبرهيرو مصرية محجبة. ظهرت هذه السلسلة المصورة على عديد من المواقع الإعلامية مثل البي بي سي وفورين بوليسي ونالت جائزة في مه...

Nadia Kaabi-Linke talked about her work as a visual artist and her process for creating pieces and holding exhibitions. Nadia Kaabi-Linke was born in Tunis, Tunisia, in 1978, and raised in Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. She graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Tunis, in 1999, and earned a Ph. D. at Université Paris-Sorbonne, in 2008. Growing up between Tunis, Kyiv, and Dubai, and now...

Mohamed spoke about starting Egyptian Streets and how he created the platform. In 2012, Mohamed founded Egyptian Streets (ES Media) as a blog to share his ramblings about Egypt on. Two years later, Egyptian Streets was founded as a media company in Egypt and has become one of the region’s fastest growing media organizations and Egypt’s leading independent English media organization. In January 201...

DJ Habibeats talked about how he grew his social media accounts and creating content. DJ Habibeats is a LA-based DJ/Producer and resident DJ for TikTok Radio on SiriusXM. Originally from the Bay Area, he has been DJing for over 12 years and has held residencies at nightclubs across San Francisco and Los Angeles. Habibeats has accrued over 1 million followers across TikTok and Instagram for his DJ...

Faisal Al Yafai talked about the process of establishing New Lines Magazine. New Lines is a magazine for the best ideas and writing about the Middle East and beyond. Based in Washington DC, New Lines specializes in long-form essays, including reportage, arguments and memoir, which bring together politics, culture and history. The magazine’s celebrated podcast has featured deep-dive interviews with...

Andrew Simon talked about his latest book "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt." Media of the Masses  investigates the social life of an everyday technology—the cassette tape—to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes became a ubiquitous presence in Egyptian homes and stores. Andrew Simon is a historian of media, popular culture, and the...

Mariam Al-Dhubhani talked about her latest project, "Musalem: Beekeeping in Yemen - A 360 VR Experience Film." Mariam Al-Dhubhani is a Yemeni-Russian award-winning journalist, filmmaker, curator, and educator based in the MENA region. She first pursued her passion for media during the 2011 Arab uprisings and co-founded her first media production. Created & hosted by Mikey Muhanna , afikra  Edited...

Fawz Kabra talked about her latest project, Brief Histories .  Brief Histories was founded in 2011 as a collaborative project with a wide community of artists focused on actions responsive to our unfolding social conditions and interactions. Created by Mikey Muhanna , afikra  Hosted by Aya Nimer Edited by: Ramzi Ramman Theme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/ About Outl...

Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann talked about her latest book,  Sudan Retold.  The book is not primarily concerned with historical details, but with an understanding of historical contexts through artistic representation. Since her MA graduation in African and Islamic Studies at the University of Cologne (Germany) with a focus on art and gender, Larissa works as a cultural manager and curator. After her gre...

In this Outline event, we talked to Carol Sansour about her latest project, In the Time of the Apricots. The book is a collection of poems that has been translated to Arabic, English and French. Art critic and writer Youssef Rakha describes this book as “a post-national discourse of belonging by necessity which, in its truth aesthetic, speaks more eloquently to the human condition than to any poli...

In this Outline event, we talked to Adib Dada about his latest project, Beirut RiverLESS Urban Forest. Beirut RiverLESS offers a set of replicable interventions to rehabilitate lost ecosystems and improve the living conditions and quality of life of people in the city who live along the river and to restore the area’s biodiversity.  Adib Dada is the founder of theOtherDada [tOD] Regenerative Consu...

In this Outline event, we talked to Lara Atallah about her latest project, The Sun That Stood Still. The project is an artist book that examines a shifting relationship to a shifting landscape. The book is about Lara’s grandmother, but also about loss, the Mediterranean, and living in a perpetual state of uprootedness while paradoxically finding grounding by the sea. Created & Hosted by Mikey Muha...

In this Outline event, we talked to Andrea Assaf about her latest project, 'Eleven Reflections on September.' The project explores Arab American experience, wars on and of terror, and “the constant, quiet rain of death amidst beauty” that each autumn brings in a post-9/11 world. Created & Hosted by Mikey Muhanna , afikra  Edited by: Ramzi Ramman Theme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.c...

In this Outline event, we talked to associate director of NYUAD Research Public Outreach Nouf Al Hamly and research public engagement specialist Rawdha Al Mansoori about their latest project, Citizen Research at NYU Abu Dhabi. The project, inspired by the global movement of Citizen Science and driven by the mutual benefit that can exist when professional researchers and members of the public work...