Rawaa Talass
Arts and Culture Journalist at Freelance
👩🏻💻✍🏼 Arts & Culture journalist, specializing in the Middle East. Words in Arab News, AD Middle East, The New Arab, Artsy, The Art Newspaper, Kayhan Life.
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
admiddleeast.com | Rawaa Talass
Although the Gulf War is nearly 35 years old, scenes of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait are still fresh in the memory of Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri. “As a seven-year-old, I think the experience of war changed me as a person,” she told AD from her base in Berlin. She still remembers an overwhelmingly dramatic sight, where hundreds of oil wells were being burned by Iraqi troops.
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2 weeks ago |
voguearabia.com | Rawaa Talass
For the first time, a new musical play in London will dive into the life and artistry of one of the Arab world's most famous singers of the 20th century, the Syrian icon Asmahan. The blue-eyed, black-haired beauty rose to prominence in the 1930s and 1940s in Egypt, where she established her short-lived yet productive career in singing and acting.
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3 weeks ago |
voguearabia.com | Rawaa Talass
The Middle East is home to thousands of mosques, serving Muslim communities but also representing ancient and modern gems of long-practiced Islamic architecture. While the region is known for its famous landmarks, such as Al-Aqsa Mosque in Palestine and Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, there are lesser known and newer spaces that have interesting stories to tell and artistic details to revel in. In honour of Eid Al Adha, here are seven unique Middle Eastern mosques that are worth knowing about.
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3 weeks ago |
voguearabia.com | Rawaa Talass
In 2011, Asmaa Al-Shabibi and her business partner William Lawrie opened in Dubai their namesake art gallery, Lawrie Shabibi, which supports and showcases 23 regional and international artists. But you could say that Al-Shabibi's capability of innately guiding artists and developing an eye for art goes back to when she was just eighteen years old.
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3 weeks ago |
admiddleeast.com | Rawaa Talass
These are the Arab women ceramic artists you need to have on your radar. In contemporary craft and design, the humble and personal practice of working with clay is fast becoming a coveted mainstream artistic medium.
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