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Beirut is a city of contrasts
Photo by Elliot Thomas-Gregory. A blown-out window front in a shopping mall in Lebanon, Beirut. Emily Reay Edited by Isabelle Slentz The city of Beirut, located at a cultural crossroads has a history dating back over five thousand years, thus the city has experienced vast change throughout its time. The marks left by the Ottoman…
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The Oriental Woman
The Fetishisation and Exoticisation of the Oriental Woman in Western Paintings Mallak Hashem Edited by Grace Phillips The notion that is “Orientalism” was unequivocally a transient one, given that today, the East is often perceived as barbaric, contentious and uncivilised. Yet between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the “Oriental” attitude, which denoted fascination with the…
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Art and Photography – MENA 2023
A Journey Through Egypt Beatrice Pistola Ellen Aylmer Visiting the South of Morocco Beatrice Pistola Tayeeba Ahmed A Weekend in the Jordanian Capital Tayeeba Ahmed Tayeeba Ahmed (Images 1&2) and Rebecca Cleere (Image 3) Walks Around the Tunis Medina Tayeeba Ahmed Beatrice Pistola