Faroukh Virani Reflects on the Love his Community has around Delicious Eid Dishes
What's your favorite Eid food?
The intimate gallery in the back of New York's Institute of Arab and Islamic Art is currently home to a show titled "Six Landscapes," which seeks to interrogate how the use of film and photography “further evolve the field of painting."
My mind rarely considers the museum’s Islamic section, although I was lucky enough to attend its opening in fall 2011 with my mother.
Sikander’s work has long been lauded as in direct opposition to colonialism, though her more recent works have tended to take a more out-there, esoteric style. But many of her older paintings have tackled colonialism head-on, offering more concrete glimpses of resistance.
I had friends and acquaintances alike urging me to “be safe” leading up to my departure. I assumed this was casual orientalism, but little did I know, at least some of these comments were the result of major, insidious confusion.
While Omar considers his photography practice a hobby, his practice resembles a form of guerilla journalism. Fann recently sat down with him to talk about his practice and his recent experience in Palestine.