Iran Protest Demo, London 12th November 2022

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Broadcast: “The Devolution of Arab Men from Humans to Fodder”

 “The Clash of Digitalizations: “The Devolution of Arab Men from Humans to Digital Fodder” A pithy talk by Saud Al-Zaid, a scholar of radical Islamic thought, at the 33th Chaos Communication Congress [33c3] in Hamburg. Al-Zaid, who holds degrees in Economics, Comparative Literature, Arab Studies, the Anthropology & Sociology of Religion, and Islamic Studies, was … Continue reading →

New Video: Iran-UK Sonics, London Residency

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New Podcast – JAOU Tunis: Sultan al Qassemi talks to Chris Weaver

After the Bardo Museum attacks on tourists earlier this year, JAOU festival and symposium is more than ever set to hold its annual arts events at the Tunis museum in Tunisia. Sound artist Chris Weaver interviews founder of the Barjeel Foundation, UAE and renowned Arab affairs commentator Sultan Al Qassemi about his participation in JAOU … Continue reading →

New Podcast – Lina Lazaar, JAOU Tunis

Ahead of our broadcasts direct from JAOU Festival, Bardo Museum, Tunis, 28-31 May 2015, we speak to JAOU founder, Lina Lazaar. Ahead of the JAOU Tunis series of broadcasts from the festival and symposium this May, Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver interview Lina Lazaar, Associate Editor of Ibraaz, Sotheby’s specialist in Post War and Contemporary … Continue reading →

Six Pillars at Art Dubai 2014

Falgoosh Radio is due to broadcast live from inside the largest art fair in the Middle East. Listen in HERE. Falgoosh Radio returns to Art Dubai 2014 for a second year in a row, with a constant dedicated stream of sound art, experimental music and discussions around the fair. Created and programmed by Six Pillars’s … Continue reading →

New Podcast – Jameel Prize Nominee Waqas Khan

Everyone’s excited about Waqas Khan. After all he’s one of the youngest nominees for the Jameel Prize 3, the Islamic Turner prize, if you like. At Dubai Art Fair, where we met him for an interview, the noise was about the way his work contrasted with everything else on show; this was work you really … Continue reading →

Outsider Artist – ‘Granny’ Hassan Exhibition, Iran

An exhibition of paintings by self-taught artist Monavvar Ramezani known as “Nanny Hassan” has been on show at the Nami Gallery, Tehran, Iran this month. The 76 -year old “Nanny Hassan” of Qeydar of Zanjan Province (b.1937), used to weave carpets and design carpet weaves, but six years ago began experimenting with painting to great … Continue reading →

This week’s Six Pillars – Peace From the Bottom of My Art

Is there such a thing as a justified war? “A bomb, sheathed in condoms, explodes in a childlike paradise.”(1) From Picasso to Chagall, the struggle for peace has been one that is constantly and necessarily represented in the arts; peace as something worth striving for, whose presence we must keenly endeavour to decipher in the … Continue reading →

A Shahnameh for the Digital Age

We have often covered productions and exhibitions around the Persian Book of Kings or The Shahnameh: from our show on Drinking Arak of an Ayatollah’s Beard, a novel about travelling around Iran and Afghanistan with a copy of the classic in hand, to the major Shahnameh exhibition at Cambridge’s Fitzwiliam Museum via an interview with … Continue reading →