Uncle Zezo, Uncle Mickey, and Dr Alloush perform in displacement shelters and hospitals, striving to restore fragments of a joy last felt in 2023. Al Majalla meets them.
[caption id="attachment_55234548" align="alignnone" width="620"] Screenshot from 5 Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi[/caption]
The tiny Palestinian village of Bil’in has become the frontline…
[caption id="attachment_55234529" align="alignnone" width="620"] The Battle of Manzikert[/caption]
Malazgirt [MA-laz-geert] n. (place name) Manzikert
Who won the Battle of Manzikert, or Malazgirt,…
[caption id="attachment_55234456" align="alignnone" width="540"] Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi[/caption]
Jerusalem is a beautiful, inspiring work, as much about communities and cultures, festivity…
[caption id="attachment_55234423" align="alignnone" width="620"] Neşet Ertaş, the Turkish folk music singer and lyrics writer.[/caption]Âşık [AA-sheuk] n. How the death of a famous…
[caption id="attachment_55234303" align="alignnone" width="620"] A community pose outside one of the Village Institutes, mid 1930s.[/caption]After its establishment, the Turkish Republic (under the…
[caption id="attachment_55234266" align="alignnone" width="620"] An artist at work on the commemorative mural in the Shatila refugee camp[/caption]On 6th September 2012, with the participation of…
[caption id="attachment_55234222" align="alignnone" width="620"] Arab cinema looking towards the future[/caption]
On 21 September a Friday Forum was held on Arab film at the ICA as the opening event…
[caption id="attachment_55234209" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish official language aims to mirror the monumentality of the mausoleum of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Ataturk.[/caption]…
[caption id="attachment_55234199" align="alignnone" width="620"] Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Beethoven'sFourth Symphony at the BBC Proms[/caption]
This year’s BBC…
[caption id="attachment_55234186" align="alignnone" width="620"] Ayatollah Khomeini[/caption]
[inset_left]Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–88
By James Blight, janet…
In one of the first major economic forecasts since the US president waged his tariff war, the IMF has downgraded growth forecasts, much to the chagrin of countries still reeling from past crises
After the euphoria of liberation has worn off, Syrians are now confronted with the daunting task of rebuilding a country ripped apart by a decade-long war. It will be a long road, but there is hope.
Uncle Zezo, Uncle Mickey, and Dr Alloush perform in displacement shelters and hospitals, striving to restore fragments of a joy last felt in 2023. Al Majalla meets them.