The Arab world’s most famous comic actor, Adel Imam, has received a three-month jail sentence for insulting Islam in films and plays, a court document showed on Thursday. Imam, who has frequently poked fun at authorities and politicians of all colors during a 40-year career, has one month to appeal the sentence and will remain [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Arab Springs’
Egyptian film star sentenced for insulting Islam
Posted in Art as a matter of life, tagged Adel Imam, Arab Springs, art, autoritarian, Christian, Coptic, culture, democracy, Egypt, freddom, human right, Islam, liberal, liberty, Muslim, Naguib Sawiris on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bahgory’s timeless revolution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arab Springs, art, culture, culture art, Egypt, George Bahgory, Grand Prix d’Angoulême, Jean-Claude Denis, paint, Tahrir Square on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Everything about George Bahgory recalls a lost time. The renowned Egyptian painter and caricaturist (sometimes referred to as the “Grandaddy of Egyptian Caricature”) has cultivated for himself the classic image of a 19th century Parisian painter; mustachioed, with a pointy beard, and a painterly hat at a jaunty angle. Bahgory seems to lead the romantic [...]
‘Songs for Tahrir’: Music for and from liberation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arab Springs, art, contestazione, culture, democracy, Egypt, Eskendrella, human right, indignati, indignatos, Middle East, music, North Africa, Occupy Wall Street, peace, revolution, Samia Jaheen, socia right, Tahir on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Most times that Palestinian artist and musician Reem Kelani was in Tahrir Square, she took her tape recorder along. She weaves some of these recordings into her radio piece “Songs for Tahrir.” The focus is on song and music, and alongside the new musical sounds of a young generation — music such as the collective [...]
Festival : The Victory of Libyan Revolution
Posted in Art as a matter of life, tagged Abdul Qadir Bouhadma, Ali Abd al Sattar, Ali al Shahhat, Anouar al Shaghiri, Arab Springs, Asmae Saleem, culture, festival, Jilani, Lybia, poems Libya, Qatar, Saad al Amrouni, songs Lybia, The Victory of Libyan Revolution, Youssef al Shaybani on December 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
THE Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage will organise a festival titled ‘The Victory of Libyan Revolution’ at the Qatar National Theatre on Thursday and Friday. The festival, which is titled ‘The Victory of the Libyan Revolution’, will feature prominent Libyan artistes, writers and popular poets. The event is the third in a series to [...]
