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LookMyBabouch: the babouche-sneaker
Take the traditional North-African leather slipper ‘babouche’ and add some freshness to it and you get LookMyBabouch (aka LMB), a sneaker version of the traditional babouche. Founder Nacim Ben Moussa...
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Yemeni visual artist Ibi Ibrahim brings tribute to Yemeni coffee
American born from Yemeni parents Ibi Ibrahim (27) is an interdisciplinary artist who is very much influenced by his Yemeni identity. With his first solo exhibition in the Middle East, Light, Leaves...
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Belgian label creates innovative Arabic design-furniture
An increasing number of designers and artists in the Middle-East are taking up the challenge of uniting the ultra-modern with an Arabic touch. The style merging Arab elements with modern aesthetics is...
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Divas Fairuz and Sabah on skateboards
Fotis Gerakis’ urban artwork consists of a series of wooden skateboard decks painted with spray paint, markers, and watercolour pencils. The use of portraits of divas Fairuz and Sabah on the skateboard...
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Candy-coloured minimalist Beirut
Eye candy visuals of the Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque with teal domes, a classic Lebanese home in Barbie pink, and vibrant facades of Saifi Village in the heart of Beirut’s center. This photo serie, titled...
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The Kaleidoscope world of Djamel Oulkadi
Repetition, symmetry, and abstraction. This characterizes the work of the Brussels based painter and artist Djamel Oulkadi. The graffiti artist masters abstract graphic work marked by Arabic...
View ArticleVisual artist Alia Ali questions duality with layers of fabric
In her photographic series, Cast No Evil, Alia Ali highlights the notion of the immediate duality that occurs in any given situation; to have one, you must have the other for either to exist. In her...
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Mohammed AlKouh photographs love stories of heartbroken Syrian men
Kuwaiti artist Mohammed AlKouh went to the Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon and Turkey to document the triumph of romance in a war inflicted circumstance. However, what he discovered was a series of...
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Invisible faces of Morocco on gigantic walls
German artist Hendrick Beikirch pays tribute to these Moroccans craftsmen whose trades and knowledge will soon be lost. The project TRACING MOROCCO, in collaboration with the Montresso foundation,...
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Black and White… Memories by Palestinian artist Oussama Diab
Last month I visited a refugee centre in Amsterdam to meet up with Oussama Diab, a well-known Palestinian painter who has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Middle East and has...
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