Rania Stephan opens her essayistic film The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011) with an excerpt from Act IV Scene I of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, spoken as Prospero prepares to step away from his magic: ‘We are such stuffAs dreams are made on, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep’ Like Prospero, Soad Hosni […]
Art Basel was founded in 1970 and is known as one of–if not the–leading art fair for contemporary and Modern art globally, with chapters in Miami (established in 2002, US market), Hong Kong (established in 2013, Asian market), outside of its home-site in Basel, Switzerland. From February 5-7, 2026, Art Basel opened its new station […]
While marriage as an age-old institution is facing threats on all global fronts, the charge against a tradition seen by many as ungainly, irrelevant, and perhaps too friction-addled, is facing finer, much more intrinsic tremors in MENA. As we see marriage rates plummet in much of the global north, a trend detected as early as […]
