Manara Studio’s posters

Visual Sunday

22.04.12 Ramallah

A small section of the wealth of colourful Palestine-themed Arabic typography and calligraphy posters from Ramallah’s Manara Studio

The bays of Algiers

08.04.12 Algiers

The camera, wandering from building to building and neighbourhood to neighbourhood in downtown Algiers, paints an intimate portrait of the Mediterranean city.

Les baies d’Alger

08.04.12 Algiers

Audio-scopie d’Alger dans un long panorama de la ville, l’œil de la caméra scrutant différents bâtiments et quartiers du centre-ville dans une approche intimiste.

Stop motion Ebru

Visual Sunday

25.03.12 Istanbul

The short movie 23 mixes the Turkish art of paper marbling called Ebru, the Japanese art of paper folding Origami and Stop Motion.

Give me a caramelo

21.03.12 Tindouf

This is the story of a people who lost their lands. A huge, uneven rectangle which appears greyish and anonymous on many maps, but is called Western Sahara.

Osama Esid

& the workers of Cairo

18.03.12 Cairo

Syrian photographer Osama Eid reveals his addiction to nostalgia through employing a known, old-school photography trick: painting images in colored oils.

Deconstructing to construct

The art of Maria Kassab

12.03.12 Beirut

Us, the humans, with our ability to destroy and build, but at the same time to dream, fear or love — this is what inspires Maria Kassab’s art.

Where and how to live in KSA?

Visual Sunday

04.03.12 Jeddah

Monopoly, a short movie by Bader Al-Homoud. This one goes out to every citizen in Saudi Arabia sleeping under a roof that’s not her/his own.

The stencil brothers

A passion about street art in Iran

26.02.12 Tehran

Icy and Sot are two brothers in arms from Tabriz in Iran, battling boredom in the streets with their spray cans and colours.

جراح

Visual Sunday

19.02.12 Damascus

.جابر العظمة فنان سوري من دمشق. بدأ التصوير عام 1998 بعدما كان يركز على الموسيقى والرسم سابقا فالصور باسم جراح أعماله الأخيرة