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Nka (2000) 2000 (11-12): 34–39.
Published: 01 May 2000
... The aim is to through expei Juliet Highet ost people are deeply astonished to discover that there is Ma dynamic contemporary Arab art scene, and even more astounded that Arab women artists are among its most...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 70–79.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of and across times, I want to examine this act of self- the city’s African and Arab populations have lived actualization in contemporary portraiture. More for years.9 Hendricks remembers it as a place of specifically, I will look at how two contemporary continual movement and change, where urban grit...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 132–137.
Published: 01 November 2022
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Nka (2023) 2023 (52): 44–53.
Published: 01 May 2023
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Nka (2024) 2024 (55): 62–75.
Published: 01 November 2024
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 22–43.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... It is, therefore, not strange that Picasso s life and work became the subject of a lifelong fascination for Morsi, leading him to author a pioneering Arabic monograph on Picasso s work, the first of its kind in the Arab world. In Alexandria, Morsi developed a network of lasting friendships with such figures...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 158.
Published: 01 May 2021
... later, in 2005, I received a phone call in Rabat, Morocco: Hi, Abdellah. Four: Doha 2013. Okwui was the first speaker This is Okwui. How are you. I am on L appartement I invited to Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in 22 balcony; the space is great . . . . 1 Okwui was one of Doha for a talk on the Off...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 228–245.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., or reference the three monotheistic religions. Like many Egyptian and Arab artists and intellectuals of his generation, Youssef saw the Palestinian question as central to the anticolonial Hassan Nka 243 Kamal Youssef, Gaza Beach, 1990. Mixed media on mylar, 56 x 46 cm. Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 76–87.
Published: 01 May 2015
... (tran- impending revolutionary moment. scribed in Arabic and English), posted January 26, Similarly, by exhibiting documentation of 30 2014: Days of Running in the Space in an undifferenti- Please, O Father, O Mother, O Youth, O Student, O Citizen, ated loop...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (33): 116–120.
Published: 01 November 2013
... to the greater field of Arab women artists. Copyright © 2013 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2013...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 8–23.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., and other writings to its short-lived periodicals and other written works, including French language journals Don Quichotte and La part du sable (Handful of Sand), and Arabic journals such as Al Risala (The Message) and Al-Majallah Al-Jadidah (The New Magazine). Together with the seven issues of its own...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 64–81.
Published: 01 November 2021
... through the Arabic-language magazine Al Tatawwur ( Evolution ) and the French-language newpaper Don Quichotte in the early 1940s. Henein also created the publishing company Éditions Masses to help build the reputation of emerging poets, organized and financed five exhibitions in Cairo of surrealist...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 48–60.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of modern citizenship in the Ethiopian state. United Arab Emirates, and an adjunct professor at the ­College of Performing and Visual Arts at Addis ­Ababa University. Notes 1 Elizabeth W. Giorgis, Modernist Art in Ethiopia (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019), 280. 2 Giorgis, Modernist Art, 248. 3 Dawit...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 126–136.
Published: 01 November 2023
... at the Africa Institute in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Notes 1 Hoor Al Qasimi, Curatorial Statement, Thinking Historically in the Present, in Sharjah Biennial 15 Guidebook (Sharjah, UAE: Sharjah Art Foundation, 2023), 1. 2 Al Qasimi, Curatorial Statement, 2. 3 Kobena Mercer, Okwui Enwezor s Survey...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... 19 Hayes, The Form of the Norm, 274. 20 Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952). Christopher J. Lee is Professor of African History, World History, and African Literature at the Africa Institute, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Lee Nka 151 ...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 6–23.
Published: 01 May 2024
... these moving receptacles at Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates in her joint survey with Stawarska, Plaited Time / Deep Water, in 2023. In this site, the wagon functioned not as a container of provisions or of dreams but rather as a mechanism or proposal, for escape, for all those dwellers who...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 64–78.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of spectators who were able to read the texts Arabic captions as well as their French legends, and who would quickly have been able to divine any gaps in meaning that lay between these descriptions. Such readers would also have had foreknowledge of the works subject matter as well as the visual locution...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (55): 44–60.
Published: 01 November 2024
... history of tradition that is still practiced and, hence, an art form that should be rearticulated as a modernist intervention. Elizabeth W. Giorgis is professor of art history, theory, and criticism at the Africa Institute, Global Studies University, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Notes 1 Holland Cotter...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 184–191.
Published: 01 November 2021
... struggle between, on the one hand, the old and neocolonial cultural hegemony and, on the other hand, the subversive resistance by the neocolonized, with all the paradoxical elements that are part and parcel of that struggle. One of the few manifestations of a surrealism-inspired cinematic work in the Arab...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 72–82.
Published: 01 May 2020
... cultural heritage are in stark contrast to those that simultaneously defined the refugees, who arrived from the same region in which the art originated, as fundamentally different and threatening. The narratives intersect in the Multaqa initiative, which offers Arab language tours of Museum Island...