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POSITIONING PIECE THE GREAT DIVIDE / JIHAN EL-TAHRI THE GREAT DIVIDE by Jihan El-Tahri I remember sitting in awe listening to Th ...

“Each one of us Africans is a participant in the perpetuation of the Divide.” ...

on any map, but the great divide embraced by the academics has somehow been transformed into an assumed reality. As Africans, we ...

ARTAFRICA POSITIONING PIECE Art has always been the language capable of connecting ideas and spaces. The first ‘Pan African Cult ...

of the festival to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first edition. However, state-sponsored initiatives, across the Afr ...

blood under the tank as it crushed protestors. The authorities immediately blotched the image of protesters with white paint but ...

THE GREAT DIVIDE / JIHAN EL-TAHRI 7/7 ARTAFRICA One such artist is Breeze Yoko, who remembers how growing up in Gugulethu (a tow ...

POSITIONING PIECE ARAB TERRITORIES / NADIRA LAGGOUNE ARAB TERRITORIES by Nadira Laggoune “How can one be Persian?” Montesquieu w ...

“The ‘Arab world’ is composed of multiple communities and it would be reductive to approach it as a monolithic assembly overwhel ...

Kurds, therefore, they belong to another sphere of identity. The unifying function of the Arabic language must be qualified as l ...

Slimane Rais, Koul chi yefna (Everything will disappear), 2015. Performance installation. Image courtesy of the artist. ...

TOP TO BOTTOM: Youssef Ouchra, Peace cure, installation photo, 2015. 500cm x 91cm, various material. Image courtesy of the artis ...

Today more than ever, in view of recent history, borders crossing the Arab world are topical. They take forms other than the sol ...

ARTAFRICA FEATURE / ‘SOMETHING ELSE:’ OFF BIENNALE CAIRO AND AtWork WORKSHOP AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO LOOK AT ART AND EDUCATION / E ...

ARTAFRICA But ‘Something Else’ was not just about art and established artists. It was also about education and involving young c ...

ARTAFRICA touched on the main problem of the Egyptian art scene, especially in relation to the young people here who practice co ...

4/7 ARTARTAFRICAAFRICA Elena Korzhenevich: So, why ‘Something Else’? Simon Njami: I’ve been coming to Egypt for quite some time, ...

ARTAFRICA In general, what role do you think art can play in the social transformation of Egypt and Northern Africa? And specifi ...

ARTAFRICA You decided to include the AtWork educational format in the programme of the Off Biennale Cairo. Why was this particul ...

ARTAFRICA How do you measure the workshop’s success? There is something tricky about these kinds of workshops because you don’t ...