“ I realize that coming from an Arabic culture – I can make use of my language and culture. To create something worldly – cosmopolitan. Living and performing in New York City – I am compelled to bridge Arabic and American cultures” An elegant embodiment of World Music herself— Nadwa Rifai is a Lebanese-born singer, actress […]
Oh, to be ‘anti-Jew’, who of you even operates like that? Trauma, historically induced paranoia, We feel for you, and dread repeats of the Holocaust… We do, so much we now erect canopies of Protest for Palestine, In tents… Encampments all around, equipped with […]
“ The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” –James Baldwin Mekia Machine is a fierce, inspiring, and visionary abstract figurative artist I met last month at the Blue Gallery in […]
