Listen © Newsha Tavakolian
Mrs. Deane profiles our very own Newsha Tavakolian's wonderful new project:
Slowly, doggedly, persistently, steadily Newsha Tavakolian has been building her career, first as a photojournalist for local newspapers in Iran, then working for international media, today including regular contributions to the New York Times Lens blog. Now she is edging towards the world where documentary meets art project, announcing her arrival with a project aptly called Listen. Listen deals with female ambitions being frustrated but not extinguished by the powers that be. If women in Iran are forbidden to sing solo or record music, then nothing stops them to perform in silence.
Click to see full text: http://www.beikey.net/mrs-deane/?p=5653
Monday 30 May 2011
Transsexuals in the Holy Land, the Osama Diaries and the Egyptian sense of humor
© Tanya Habjouqa
The wonderful Mrs. Deane photo blog profiles Rawiya member Tanya Habjouqa:
Habjouqa, one of the five female founding members of the collective Rawiyas, shows us a very contemporary life as it is lived in areas like the Gaza strip, Jerusalem, Syria, Egypt or Lebabon, and these lives include very familiar aspects: transsexuality, a flourishing body building culture, impossible love stories, heroin addicts in occupied land, and Egyptians working in the tourist industry, surviving solely on their sense of humor about the ridiculously cliché roles life tends to put on one. Click to read full text : http://www.beikey.net/mrs-deane/?p=5448
The wonderful Mrs. Deane photo blog profiles Rawiya member Tanya Habjouqa:
Habjouqa, one of the five female founding members of the collective Rawiyas, shows us a very contemporary life as it is lived in areas like the Gaza strip, Jerusalem, Syria, Egypt or Lebabon, and these lives include very familiar aspects: transsexuality, a flourishing body building culture, impossible love stories, heroin addicts in occupied land, and Egyptians working in the tourist industry, surviving solely on their sense of humor about the ridiculously cliché roles life tends to put on one. Click to read full text : http://www.beikey.net/mrs-deane/?p=5448
The National profiles Rawiya!
© Tamara Abdul Hadi
Rawiya is a new Middle East photography collective comprising some of my favorite photographers in the region. Though they will often be referred to by their sex before their occupations, these 'female photographers' are some of the best photographers in the Middle East.
Click to read more: http://www.thenational.ae/national-blog/national-view?articleID=1642
Rawiya is a new Middle East photography collective comprising some of my favorite photographers in the region. Though they will often be referred to by their sex before their occupations, these 'female photographers' are some of the best photographers in the Middle East.
Click to read more: http://www.thenational.ae/national-blog/national-view?articleID=1642
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