Wedding-Core: SAMoCA’s retelling of MENA’s marital maximalism
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…
Exhibition
Faiza Hasan on collective memory and history in her latest exhibit
Indian visual artist Faiza Hasan’s Hifz is a deeply interpersonal exploration of memory, identity, and the passage of time. The exhibition presents a folio of…
Review: Majd Arandas’ “A Blank Wall and a Phone Camera” at Gulf Photo Plus
Walking into Gulf Photo Plus to view A Memorial in Fragments, a posthumous solo exhibition of the Palestinian photographer Majd Arandas brings to collision the…
Limbs of the Lunar Disc: Sarah Al-Sarraj reimagines ancestral justice across collapsing timelines
When I meet Sarah Al-Sarraj in her Lewisham studio, she refers to the figures in her large-scale paintings on wooden panels, as people, and I…
A History Felt in the Gut
On the eve of Nowruz, in 19th-century Qajar-era Iran, love between women could be formalised in secret. A ritual known as Sigheh Khahari—the sisterhood vow—involved…