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Spotlight on Islamic art of Africa in Paris
\"The Islamic Treasures of Africa: From Timbuktu to Zanzibar\" is on display at L'Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris through Jul 30, 2017. Highlighting not only the art and culture of West Africa, the Horn of Africa, Upper Nile Valley and the Swahili region--the areas historically known in Arabic as bilad al-sudan (the land of the black peoples)--this unique exhibition, organized with the support of the governments of Senegal and the Cote d'Ivoire, also explored the relationship between the Arab and Muslim world with sub-Saharan Africa. Through trade, beginning in the eighth century, Islam spread throughout the region. Featuring 300 pieces of artwork, the initial galleries displayed the early art and craftsmanship of sub-Saharan Africa, including the calligraphy of sacred texts and manuscripts.
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Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ's Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung
In the fall of 1966, Ḥiwār magazine published al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ's novel Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl [Season of Migration to the North]. Arabic literary critics both hailed the novel in the Arabic press and mourned that it had been published by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom's Ḥiwār. The CCF had been revealed just months before to be a global covert cultural front of the Cold War founded and funded by the United States Central intelligence Agency, maintaining an extensive list of high profile literary magazines, including not only the Beirut-based Arabic magazines Ḥiwār and briefly Adab, but also the London-based Encounter, Bombay's Quest, and the African journals Black Orpheus in Ibadan and Transition in Kampala. In response to the 1955 Bandung conference for Afro-Asian solidarity, the CCF established a formidable network of its own, founding and funding African and Asian magazines, putting on conferences, art exhibits, and handsomely paying a significant cadre of intellectuals, writers, and artists worldwide. It would be more than a decade later that the CIA's domination of Afro-Asian literature would give way to the publication of the Afro-Asian Writers Association's trilingual (Arabic/English/French) journal Afro-Asian Writings (later to be called Lotus), a broadly imagined legacy of the 1955 Bandung Conference for Afro-Asian Solidarity and its celebration of decolonization, various forms of communism and socialism, and resistance literature in the third world.
Drawing from Encounter, Ḥiwār, and other journals of the CCF, the Arabic press, letters exchanged by Ṣāliḥ and Ḥiwār's editor Tawfīq Ṣāyigh, and the archives of the International Association for Cultural Freedom, this article argues that Season of Migration to the North, oft read as a postcolonial novel, is better understood as a product of American Cold War cultural imperialism. If its protagonist, Mustafa Sa'eed, might aspire, as though taking a page from Frantz Fanon, to liberate Africa with his penis as he beds a series of British women, seducing them with Orientalist fantasy, and if the novel's unnamed narrator might see that the newly independent Sudanese government was being corrupted by American cars, air conditioners, and opulent conferences and government ministries, the novel itself is doing something still more. As it reaches back intertextually to pre-Islamic poetry, the wine odes of 'Abbasid poet Abū Nuwās, and the tales of A Thousand and One Nights in British translation, Ṣāliḥ's novel exposes the long chain of empires subtending the dissemination of Arabic literature that left it vulnerable to becoming a terrain of cultural Cold War after Bandung's call for Afro-Asian solidarity.
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\Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797\ exhibit explores cross-cultural influences
THE MAGICAL CITY of Venice, the exotic world of Near Eastern Islamic art-and the influence of each on the other-is the subject of a unique exhibition on view until July 8 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Being and belonging : contemporary women artists from the Islamic world and beyond
\"Showcasing artworks that offer political and poetic commentary on many of today's major global issues, Being and Belonging also features powerful and intimate interviews with 25 women artists from the Islamic world and beyond. Born and living in many different countries, the artists claim space and place as equal commentators on the world we live in today. Whether addressing domestic spaces, political displacement, war, discrimination, or gender and sexuality, these artists invite us to move away from easy and schematic representations of the world. The featured artists include Sama Alshaibi, Shahzia Sikander, Dilyara Kaipova, Lubaina Himid, Manal AlDowayan, Shirin Neshat, Mona Hatoum, and Tayeba Begum Lipi, and the works included in the book range from paintings, drawings, photography, and ceramics to mosaics, textiles, graffiti, animation, and video installations.\"-- Page 4 of cover.
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WHEN GLOBAL ART MEANDERS ON A MAGIC CARPET: A CONVERSATION ON TEHRAN'S ROAMING BIENNIAL
Despite the complicated urban situation-which according to many commentators and critics has already spiraled out of control-artist communities in Tehran try to remain connected by continuing to hold numerous biennials: the Tehran Visual Arts Festival, the Calligraphy Biennial, the Sculpture Biennial, the Cartoon Biennial, the Painting Biennial of the Islamic World, the Graphic Design Biennial, the Children Book Illustration Biennial, the Painting Biennial, the Poster Biennial, the Poster Biennial of the Islamic World, and the list goes on. Artists from Europe periodically pay visit to the gallery; sometimes we have heated debates among Iranian artists and our foreign guests. Since 2002, ParkingGallery has also sponsored many events and exhibitions that help promote more than what a young Iranian artist can find in available art history textbooks or magazines.
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League of Arab States Holds Second Arab-American Day
Somehow the League of Arab States managed to top its first Arab-American Day reception, which followed a private viewing of the award-winning exhibition \"1001 Inventions\" at the National Geographic building in Washington, DC. That exhibit celebrated scientific and technological contributions of Muslim and Arab civilizations in the past thousand years. Sameh Alfonse, who heads the Arab League's Congressional and Media Affairs office in Washington, DC, welcomed attendees on behalf of hosts the Arab League and the Council of Arab Ambassadors, and introduced Andrew Gelfuso, VP of the Office for Trade Promotion at the International Trade Center. Gelfuso said he was honored to host this important celebration. The Arab League's Ambassador to the United States Mohammed Al-Hussaini Al-Sharif reminded listeners that the previous Arab-American Day celebrated past accomplishments of the Arab and Muslim world.
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