A look at certain events going on in July for Shubbak, the Arab festival of arts and entertainment Continue reading
From Monday 10th September we are now on 6pm Mondays, repeating Wednesdays 1pm. Have an idea you’d like to submit for the season? 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
As the quinquennial Documenta 14 opens in its second city, Kassel in Germany, we hear from participating artist Joar Nango. One of the endangered Sámi tribes in Norway, Nango is an architect who creates installations and collaborative works with the environment and social context in mind. His open air piece at Athens Conservatoire is called … Continue reading
The sounds of South Iran, Bushehr on the south coast of Iran and the north of the Gulf basin, are well known in Iran. The bagpipe is normally the skin of a goat, uncut in that it keeps its essential shape, and the player will blow down the wooden pipe attached to the neck of … Continue reading
Where normally foreign travel photo pieces about Iran present photos that seek to reinforce our ideas of what Iran ‘should’ look like, this set taken and, clearly heavily edited, for Vice Germany seem to dodge that, and instead present a much fuller, and welcome banal side of life in Iran in pictures. The images selected … Continue reading
On this week’s Six Pillars an interview with Emirati Hind Mezaina, an established artist and blogger in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, plus field recordings taken from a visa run to the nearby Sultanate of Oman, from Dubai, a round trip made in 4 hours. Hind, who is of part-Egyptian descent has been writing under … Continue reading
