A look at certain events going on in July for Shubbak, the Arab festival of arts and entertainment Continue reading
This week we sample tracks from and inspired by all over West Asia, featuring: Tara Kamangar_-_Aminollah Hossein from Persian Miniatures Saint Abdullah – Mossadegh’s Revenge for 52 Faraz Minooei – Bafar Siah (Black Snow) 2008 Soheil Soheili Ft. Haman – Deflection Broadcast Times: 6-6.30pm Mondays Repeats Wednesday 1-1.30pm On air, on digital radio DAB in … Continue reading
The London Palestine Film Festival (LPFF) returns after a two year haitus, with diverse, rare and popular shorts, features and documentaries, working to connect audiences with international filmmakers focusing on Palestine-related issues. Joining the likes of Bella Freud and Eyal Weizman for the festival are this week’s Six Pillars’ guests (bios below): Mai Masri with … Continue reading
Iranian and Arab, including Palestinian tracks tonight on Six Pillars on Resonance104.4FM Experimental, instrumental and electronic dance music, with even a bit or hip-hop this week. SIX PILLARS BROADCAST TIMES Live On Air, On Digital Radio Signal and Online. – Wednesdays, 9 – 9.30pm – Mondays (REPEAT), 5 – 5.30pm Listen online HERE _____________________________________________________________________________________ PODCASTS … Continue reading
This new season on Resonance104.4FM, Six Pillars provides an antidote to mainstream media outside these regions, with their damagingly limited Orientalist and alarmist lenses. Focusing on choice contemporary West Asian (Middle Eastern), North African and South Asian sound, art and culture, tune in for experimental music, arts and culture. Broadcasts (UK time) Wednesday 9-9.30pm Repeats … Continue reading
A new four-part, monthly series The Far Becomes Near archives the history of radio broadcasting in the United Arab Emirates, as radiophonic experiments punctuated by oral histories from local historians, academics, cultural commentators and the federation’s earliest broadcasters. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation, the archive describes a Gulf at the turn of the 20th Century … Continue reading
LOVE AND REVENGE – 21.01.17 @ Le Noumatrouff from La Filature on Vimeo. Electro Pop Music and Cinema from the Arab World : an audio visual concert at Noumatrouff – Mulhouse (a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German border) as part of the festival les Vagamondes organised at the … Continue reading
“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
Born in Palestine [English Lyrics] I have no place I have no country I have no homeland With my fingers I make fire and with my heart I sing for you my heart’s strings weep I was born in Palestine I was born in Palestine I have no place I have no country I have … Continue reading
Art Scenes in the UAE, Guest episode 3/4 – The role of curated shows at commercial galleries. How audiences outside the market forces respond. With guest directors from galleries Isabelle van den Eynde, Lawrie Shabibi, Ayyam and Grey Noise. Catch the first of the 4 episodes here. Guest produced by Wael Hattar and Hind Mezaina, … Continue reading
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