Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Arts & Culture'
What Happens When an American Asks Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem Their wishes?
by Ilene Prusher, Jerusalem Vivendi, Israel - “The air over Jerusalem is saturated with prayers and dreams,” poet Yehuda Amichai wrote, “like the air over industrial cities. It’s hard to breathe.” But somehow, when a young American named Joseph Shamash...
It's Time to Remove Racism from Children's Books
by Dialika Neufeld, Der Spiegel, Germany - There are also children for whom constantly being labeled a "nigger" is more painful than it was for me in my own childhood. That alone is enough reason why publishers should revise their...
Vivid Cinematic Essay Examines Hannah Arendt
by Elke Schmitter, Der Spiegel, Germany - Her theory of the "banality of evil" made Hannah Arendt both famous and controversial. Now German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta has given the philosopher an outstanding cinematic portrait....
You Owe Me
by Miah Arnold, Michigan Quarterly Review, USA - The children I write with die, no matter how much I love them, no matter how creative they are, no matter how many poems they have written, or how much they want...
Genocide as a Partial Picture
by Julie Masis, Asia Times, Hong Kong - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC plans a new exhibition on Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, but it is uncertain if the American secret bombing of the country some analysts say...
Performing the Arab Spring
by India Stoughton, The Daily Star, Lebanon - Many of the greatest works of literature, art and theater owe their existence not to the imagination, but to the real-life drama of history events – their glory, but more often their...
The Writer, the State and the Nobel
by Didi Kirsten Tatlow, International Herald Tribune, France - Can a writer in a one-party state that practices massive censorship ever be truly free to create? Or do censorship and compromise trap the writer’s mind in ways he or she...
Alice Walker: “Go to the Places That Scare You”
by Valerie Schloredt, Yes!, USA - The acclaimed novelist on why a life worth living is a life worth fighting for....
Their Europe Is Ours Too
by Cláudia Carvalho, Público, Portugal - What is our Europe like? How do we see it? How do we experience it? We all live in the same space, but without seeing it in the same way: an observation demonstrated by...
Theatre Festival to Unite Khmer and Western Artists
by Dagmarah Mackos, Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia - The French Cultural Institute in Phnom Penh will open its doors to a new set of French and Khmer artists as part of its bid to revive Cambodian theatre, brought to near...
Up in Arms over Comedy
by Huma Yusuf, Dawn, Pakistan - Shows like Citizen Khan are essential in multicultural societies and help put all communities on an equal footing — if everyone can have a laugh at everyone else’s expense, then no one can claim...
Preserving Street Art in Sydney
by Leesha McKenny, Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - The importance of street art is being recognised by a number of Sydney councils who are looking into preserving and even commissioning work....
Surfing the Rape Wave: What Tosh Teaches About Humor, Power and Privilege
by Jennifer Pozner, Fem 2.0, USA - Why did comics who usually disagree about everything—even those known as creative, unusually inventive comedians—choose to circle the wagons around Tosh’s gang rape invitation? The knee-jerk explanation has been that anything goes, no...
Artist Soraya Nulliah On: Art, Apartheid, Women and Violence
by Rita Banerji, Gender Bytes, India - While the issue of violence is personal to me, I also know it’s a common experience for so many others, especially women in the Indian community. Every single friend I have in the...
Water by the Spoonful: An Interview with Quiara Alegría Hudes
by Kathleen Potts, Guernica, USA - In the afterglow of her Pulitzer win, the feminist playwright opens up about border-crossing, why she’d make a terrible critic, and her master teacher, Paula Vogel....
Petals in the Dust : South Asian Mother Produces Film about Endangered Indian Girls
by Anjum Choudhry Nayyar, Masala Mommas, Canada - This is the worst genocide in India’s history and unless we act soon, the Indian girls will continue to be eliminated....
A Movie Moment
by Sunaina Kumar, Tehelka, India - Project Cinema City scavenges a hundred years of cinematic history to make a larger than reel life monument to movies and Mumbai....
Garbage Crew Gains Exposure with 'Trashcam'
by Verena Töpper, Der Spiegel, Germany - Who says garbage collectors can't be creative? Sanitation workers in Hamburg created a sensation with their striking photographs taken with a dumpster converted into a pinhole camera. Now the campaign has won a...
Russia's Gallery Brings Art Closer to the Disabled
by Tatyana Shramchenko, Russia Beyond the Headlines, Russia - The State Tretyakov Gallery’s hall on Krymsky Val, Moscow, is hosting an exhibition for the blind and partially sighted as part of a bigger project called “Language of Sculpture in Braille.”...
Historic Film Traces Guatemala’s Bloody Past
by Natasha Pizzey-Siegert, Tico Times, Guatemala - “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator” tells the story of Guatemala’s brutal 36-year internal war, which left 200,000 dead, and the subsequent quest for justice in a climate of ingrained impunity....
The Gaddafi Archives: Libya before the Arab Spring London 2012
by Farah Abushwesha, The Tripoli Post, Libya - Whilst the last six months have seen an explosion of exhibitions, talks and publications focusing on Libyan art and other forms of creative expression as a result of the Arab Spring –...
66 Minutes in Syrian Detention
by Aline Sara, NOW Lebanon, Lebanon - This month, immerse yourself in a theatrical experience unlike any other. You are a tourist who has somewhat imprudently decided to visit Damascus, the capital of a nation where a fiery anti-regime uprising...
In a Damascus Suburb, Ballet Goes On
by Emma LeBlanc and Phil Sands, JO, Jordan - As the Syrian revolution grinds on, bloody and chaotic, middle-class Damascus clings to rituals of everyday life....
Her Bill of Writes
by Garima Jain, Tehelka, India - A domestic worker by day, and acclaimed author by night, Halder first claimed the spotlight in 2006, with the publication of her bestselling A Life Less Ordinary. But she steps away from its glare...
Comedian Beppe Grillo Shakes Up Italian Politics
by Fiona Ehlers, Der Spiegel, Germany - All across crisis-hit Europe, voters are disillusioned with mainstream politicians and are turning to populist and radical parties. In Italy, the new rising force is comedian Beppe Grillo's grassroots Five Star Movement. But...
Diablo III’s Female Character Models Are a Step in the Right Direction
by Becky Chambers, The Mary Sue, USA - I don’t want to spend my free time in a world where women play second fiddle to the “real” heroes. That doesn’t mean that the protagonist has to be a woman, but...
In Conversation with Dacia Maraini
by Yamini Deenadayalan, Tehelka, India - What the Berlusconi regime meant to artists and why women writers are not taken seriously by the critics all over the world....
'Ugly Babies' Exhibit Depicts Life under Oppression In China
by Courtney Brooks, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - "When you go to China, you clearly see the emergence of a civil society," Sorman says. "The people talk their mind and you also discover that there is a huge underground...
“Play” — A Film that Upends Racist Clichés
by America Vera-Zavala, Aftonbladet, Sweden - Is this a racist movie? Ruben Östlund’s latest film — a story of poor black and middle class white children which deliberate plays on the audience’s prejudices — has sparked controversy in Sweden....
Bosnia War Victims Praise New Jolie Film
by Marija Arnautovic, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - Jolie said she had often been bothered by the lack of assistance for war victims -- particularly women -- that she has seen around the world during her travels as a...
Take Five Gives a Second Life to Pakistan's Film Musicians
by Dheera Sujan, South Asia Wired, Netherlands - The industry was producing more than a hundred films a year, until general Zia ul-Haq imposed an Islamic military dictatorship in the country; culture and the arts were amongst the first victims....
If Tolkien Were Black
by Laura Miller, Salon, USA - African-American writers are taking on a literary genre dominated by nostalgia for Medieval England....
Occupy Movement Attracts Support of Top Authors
by Alison Flood, Guardian, UK - Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Noam Chomsky among star names added to online petition at occupywriters.com....
Poets Stand Up
by Sarah Browning, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - Poets gathered in Fez, Morocco, and Jalalabad, Afghanistan and Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. All this – and more – made up 100 Thousand Poets for Change on Saturday, September 24, 2011....
Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care
by Ramona Wadi, Upside Down World, Canada - Cuban doctors have regaled people in Latin America and around the world with medical opportunities which, in capitalist ideology and implementation, remain remote. While Cubans are provided free health care provided by...
Art or Vandalism?
by Yasmine El Rashidi, Index on Censorship, UK - In post-revolution Egypt, street art has become one of the symbols of ongoing resistance....
Can You See Me Now?
by Stefany Anne Golberg, Utne Reader, USA - For most deaf Americans, being deaf is not the inability to hear but rather the ability to perceive life in a different way from hearing people. For many, it’s a blessing....
Hip Hop & Diaspora: Connecting the Arab Spring
by Lara Dotson-Renta, Arab Media & Society, Egypt - It has been hip-hop that has become the most iconic and widespread soundtrack of the Arab Spring and, interestingly, it is having the double effect of helping to mobilize activists in...
What's in an “Om”?: How Women Are Transforming Yoga
by Meera Subramanian, Religion Dispatches, USA - Now it is women who have become what Kate Clere McIntyre describes as “modern-day evangelists, getting up on their yoga platform” and finding ways to push women to do things they think they...
Photo Exhibit Dispels Myths about Child Sex Industry
by Galina Stolyarova, The St. Petersburg Times, Russia - “A rape victim is typically seen in society as someone worthy of compassion; a child involved in a commercial sexual exploitation scheme is seen differently — most people do not even...
Iranian Censors' Heavy Hand Falls On A Persian Classic
by Elahe Ravanshad, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - Many authoritarian regimes censor books for political reasons. But Iran goes so far in also tampering with books for self-claimed religious reasons that the Islamic republic's censors form a league of...
Red Sea Reboot
by Nirit Anderman, Ha'aretz, Israel - Four years after a brutal attack left him silent and withdrawn, a young man has undergone a remarkable recovery, thanks to the dolphins of Eilat − a process recorded in a new documentary....
Cinema Verite
by Neta Alexander, Haaretz, Israel - Inspired by the vision of the late Juliano Mer-Khamis, Oscar-nominated producer James Schamus and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek went to Ramallah to talk to a group of Palestinian filmmakers about cinema’s role in the...
German-Jewish Literary Culture Returns from Exile
by Helen Whittle, Der Spiegel, Germany - German Jews who fled Nazi persecution to what is now Israel took as many books as they could carry. But their descendants, many of whom don't speak German, are left with cratefuls of...
Côte d’Ivoire: The Music is Silent on Rue Princesse
by Monica Mark, The Africa Report, France - Life has been turned upside down in the economic capital of Côte d’Ivoire, but its artists, writers and musicians are using their talents to soothe, unify and rebuild ...
One for the Wall
by Rania Khallaf, Al-Ahram, Egypt - A number of young artists and fine arts students in Alexandria have been painting other mini-murals on the walls along the sea front. Their drawings depict the joy Egyptians felt after they overcame the...
Free Books in Public Places to Woo Readers
by Marcela Valente, IPS, Italy - "This book has not been lost. It has no owner; it is part of the Argentine Free Book Movement, and it was left in this place so that you would find it."...
Keep on Truckin'
by Alison Hird, Radio France Internationale, France - The 'Move for Life' mobile exhibition at ArtParis aims to fight poverty, racism, AIDS and violence by showing works of art by famous international artists on the side of truck....
A Female Perspective of War: Sisters in Arms Documents Three Women's Choice to Fight
by Katherine Monk, Canada.com, Canada - ``Being in the military is challenging enough, but women remain such a minority in combat roles that they don't really have a support group of their own. They can be quite isolated, and yet,...
Economics of Happiness
by Kellia Ramares, Wings, Canada - Localization can repair the economic and social wreckage wrought by globalization and bring greater happiness, through community. So say sages and activists on six continents, in a new film. In this interview, Helena Norberg-Hodge...
Poems of War, Peace, Women, Power
by Suheir Hammad, TED, USA - "Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded."...
Rare Photos of the Lands that Became the United Arab Emirates
by Rym Ghazal, The National, UAE - In 1959, when Salim Zabbal went out in search of forgotten villages in Kuwait for a new Arab-language magazine, he encountered a group of men who spoke of their "tough life" back home...
A Revolution in the Making
by Amalinda Savirani, Inside Indonesia, Australia - Casual designs are not just revolutionising batik culture, they’re also giving batik workers new choices....
Photographers Capture Experience of Palestinians in Lebanese Refugee Camps
by Hatice Ahsen Utku, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Twenty-two photographers from Turkey visited Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and are now sharing their impressions and observations in the exhibit. The artwork, on display until Aug. 20, includes photographs by the...
Love and Hate: 'Dancing Auschwitz' Videos Get a Raw Response
by Glenda Kwek, The Age, Australia - An Australian artist has defended a video of her family dancing at concentration camps in Europe, saying she wanted to "present a fresh interpretation of the past"....
Lost in the Muqam: Uighur Music in Xinjiang
by Camilla French, Al Jazeera.net, Qatar - The Muqam, a traditional form of Uighur music, are large-scale pieces consisting of instrumental sections, sung poetry, stories and dance....
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