“ 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 […]
Downward spiraling into the Covid-19 abyss, the human need for visual and figurative art magnifies. Lockdown may have stifled many artists’ desire to create, but it has intensified patrons’ hunger to appreciate and engage with the finer arts: Paintings, sculpture, photography, music, film, literature, design and cooking. Entrepreneur and curator Marina Dojchinov recognized this gap […]
“Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.” — Mahmoud Darwish Palestine Resistance has exposed Colonialism. Refusing to leave, and willing to die, we long proper burials in our own earth that you brutally deny… Why strip us of this right to sanctify […]
