By: Souria Dabbousi / Arab America Contributing Writer Rising Arab artist Elyanna Marjieh, of Palestinian-Chilean descent, is the first performer to play an entire set in Arabic at the Coachella festival. Arabic and Western beats are combined in Elyanna’s music which the singer attributes to her multicultural background. About Elyanna Elyanna Marjieh, birth name Elian, … Continued
By: Jenny Lyu / Arab America Contributing Writer Recent thursdays are always accompanied by light rain in New York City. I was in the rain, coming down harder and harder. The sound of the rain hitting the floor urged me to pick up the pace. I desperately longed to enter a warm, dry, peaceful world. … Continued
SOURCE: THE NATIONAL BY: MELISSA GRONLUND The excitement of the evening belonged to the Palestinian artist Ismail Shammout ‘The Way’ by Ismail Shammout: the 1964 painting, a scene of Palestinians clutching rifles painted almost at close-up, tripled its low estimate to go for £150,000, an auction record for the artist. Christie’s Middle Eastern Modern & … Continued
The Palestinian Museum in Birzeit. Courtesy The Palestinian Museum. By: Hili Perlson Source: ArtNet The Palestinian Museum in Birzeit—located just north of Jerusalem, in the West Bank—is opening its inaugural show this Sunday after a 15-month delay. The museum’s $24 million building was completed in May 2016, and has stood empty ever since due to … Continued
By: MATT HANSON The Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art is one of three surviving Palestinian art galleries in East Jerusalem. Former director of the Palestinian Museum, the Jerusalem-born Armenian-Palestinian curator Jack Persekian first opened Al Ma’mal as a small gallery in the shadow of the Latin Patriarchate in 1998 before moving to a historic … Continued
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