...Dina A. Ramadan Thirty-two-year-old multimedia artist Ahmed Basiony was one of the earliest martyrs of the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. Shortly after his death his work was selected for the Egyptian pavilion at the fifty-fourth Venice Biennale. This article questions the choice of Basiony...

... or another. The concept of the martyr as hero is not foreign to Arab societies; the glorification of martyrdom is an inherent aspect of Islamic culture. In the virtual world of social networks, people are free to create their own content, so they re-created a concept historically present in Islam, the cult...

... and of arms originally belonged to an individual man martyrs. Botha depicts Zeus-as-swan at the as a means of instant recognition and were passed moment of possessing Leda, the figures sculpted on to his male descendants, Botha's coats of arms primarily out of bonemeal. His sculpture follows...

... these attempts at contextualization left the visitor wanting more. The will always be a martyr who sacrificed his life for his people and his videotaped interviews were scratchy and difficult to hear. The sup• country. This legacy manifests itself in cruxification images, wherein plementary...

... reactions of guilt and blame no less Kunsthall, Sweden, 1996; Under a Different Sky, Copenhagen, powerful than those created by Saint Sebastian's act of martyr• Denmark, 1996, and Modernities and Memories in the Venice dom. Biennale of 1997. Hassan Musa currently works and lives...

... of history. 33 History in the Congo and the era of Lumumba, as argued above, is largely informed by the photographic. In Tshibumba s Discours du 4 janvier 1959, Les Martyrs de l Indépendance (Speech of January 4, 1959, The Martyrs of Independence), ca. 1970 73, for example, a portrait is coupled...

... the it is not difficult to associate the Shakur and the two top martyrs of black Civil Rights boundary between the two, that is operative Smalls tragedies, and radical gangster rap, movements in the RNDD series. The artist in Nelson's Keep It Real, a re-enactment of with the stepping-razor...

..., his surroundings. The young king American painter and American alone in his tower makes beautiful martyr, gone but not erased...

... museum. Situated in an old firehouse and renovated contemporary black states of being. Unlike direc- Victorian mansion, this museum is at once archaic tor Raoul Peck, who painstakingly animated famil- and a startlingly present part of Baltimore’s his- iar images of martyred Congo liberation leader...

... a strong inferiority, which could martyr, who is shown headless, so doing, is Taylor establishing a March 30 - June 25,2000 be observed almost immediately allowing her body to speak. One...

... it, and the subsequent emergence of Angola's first revolutionary martyrs. In these respects the film may occupy the same position in the history...

... paintings Prison (1959) and Martyr a young woman sitting on a rug and suckling her girls—one of whom offers the teacher a white blos - in the decade had turned to a more sober, more (1961) address this widespread suppression of dis - child, while her husband sits behind her, his left som—may...

... traveled not so much where he is. But even then, it is apparent that, in his rest• less search for eloquence at the time, his most sig• nificant contribution to Uli aesthetic is the incor• poration of Mbari designs. This is obvious from the bold triangular designs in Painter, 1993, and Martyr...

... crafted a docu-drama that is as pregnant with possibility as audiences who may not otherwise be familiar with it. Peck's use it is with loss and regret. Peck has said that Patrice Lumumba of newsreel-like detail and the conventions of realism allow his "became a martyr because...

... the goods of consumption: objectified women, consumer society. A young Muslim gives his life as a alcohol, and more generally, with all that is forbidden or martyr, and reaches Paradise, where seventy-two virgins inaccessible to us during life. (houris) give themselves to him...

... Terry Adkins, Four digital video stills, 1998-1999, Shepherd, Soldier, Martyr, Prophet, 36 x 54 inches each 50. Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art "There was something special about John Brown. He attacked the bastions of the federal government—not to liberate...

... sanctioning the number of children that could be employed and the con• Maurice, an African Christian martyr. In all prob• ditions under which they labored. S. D. Chapman, "The ability...

... contacted Sir Staff ord will be impossible to touch him, any movement in Northcote, the chancellor of the exchequer, that direction, too, would make him a martyr which seeking procedural violations in Th rop’s strategy. is probably what he wants. I am informed that his Northcote informed Ponsonby...

... where the thing or the person or the idea become simultaneously the thing and its opposite . . . We must exit the night, and the truth is that no preachers eloquence nor martyrs heroism can help us in doing that. In responding to the major parties claim to possessing an absolute dogmatic framework...

... as a reflection martyr and hero. To this end we include Maryse Conde: on the revival of interest in Fanon's ideas' in black visual and per• Guadeloupean novelist, who critioues his representation of women; formance arts. The black arts movement in Britain and North America Mohammed Harbi (who...