Danny Hajjar has always been surrounded by Arabic music. He grew up in the U.S., but his parents are both Lebanese immigrants who had it on all the time. DANNY HAJJAR: So it's really intrinsic to who ...

"This book is devoted to documenting the tremendous discursive energies of modern artists and critics who lived and worked in the Arabic-speaking regions of the Middle East and North ...

Two young women in hijabs pose underneath a photo of a girl with a neon sign that says eib glowing across her face. The Arabic word doesn’t translate exactly, but the closest English counterpart is ...

BOSTON - Arab art embraces many possibilities. “Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s,” an exhibition on view at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, explores those ...

The middle of the 20th century was a tumultuous time for the 22 countries of the Arab world. It was a period of decolonization and industrialization, of war and mass-migration. It saw the rise of ...

Summer always comes with its own soundtrack; the songs we end up playing on repeat, whether we’re at the beach or just trying to get through a workday. This year, Arab artists are stepping in with a ...

1985 poster designed by Marc Rudin and published by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) I admit to feeling crippled by the New Museum’s Here ...

This month, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, will open four shows exploring the depth and breadth of the Arab world’s contemporary works. By David Belcher Tucked away on a side street, ...

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