April Culture

Jadaliyya's April culture bouquet arrives with a special focus on the visual arts. 

Mehri Khalil contributes the first installment of a series on the reopened galleries for Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, and the Louvre Museum. Rima Chahrour profiles the "Self Portrait" performances of Marya Kazoun. Noura Alsager reviews Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's New York City showing of their "Lebanese Rocket Society" project. Anna Della Subin and Hussein Omar review a recent New York City performance of Ibn Daniyal's 13th century The Shadow Spirit trilogy.

Mehri Khalil's From "Islamic Art" to "Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia": Reliving the Distortions of History 

Rima Chahrour's The Active Feminine: Performance Art in Lebanon with Reference to Marya Kazoun

Noura Alsager's The Lebanese Rocket Society: A Dream Takes Flight 

Anna Della Subin and Hussein Omar's First as Shadow, Then as Farce: An Evening with Medieval Puppeteer Ibn Daniyal at CUNY in New York.