The purpose of this book is to highlight how these visual arts, which are often interconnected, h... more The purpose of this book is to highlight how these visual arts, which are often interconnected, have found ways and strategies of asserting a composite and fruitful Arab cultural identity, different from clichés and away from mainstream narratives, which often describe it as monolithic and unchanging. These arts constitute a valuable medium to counter and overcome many prejudices and stereotypes of the ‘other’. In this spirit, without claiming to be exhaustive, this volume aims to offer the public an overview of various forms of visual arts that originate from or relate to the MENA area. The common thread is art as a powerful means of identity, and the aim is to introduce the works of upcoming artists. Among the Arab visual arts we present here, comics is perhaps one of the most popular mediums and, therefore, it is with comics we decided to start.
The purpose of this book is to highlight how these visual arts, which are often interconnected, h... more The purpose of this book is to highlight how these visual arts, which are often interconnected, have found ways and strategies of asserting a composite and fruitful Arab cultural identity, different from clichés and away from mainstream narratives, which often describe it as monolithic and unchanging. These arts constitute a valuable medium to counter and overcome many prejudices and stereotypes of the ‘other’. In this spirit, without claiming to be exhaustive, this volume aims to offer the public an overview of various forms of visual arts that originate from or relate to the MENA area. The common thread is art as a powerful means of identity, and the aim is to introduce the works of upcoming artists. Among the Arab visual arts we present here, comics is perhaps one of the most popular mediums and, therefore, it is with comics we decided to start.
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