Interview – Page 2 – Reconnecting Arts

Meshari bin Hasan on photographs being the embodiment of the Proustian memory.

Meshari Bin Hasan is an international politics student in Liverpool. He’s been photographing for the past five years mainly using film cameras and recently started using digital. His main forte is documentary.

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Haya G. Al-Bassam, tells us a story about our everday life through illustrations and collages.

Haya Al Bassam creates minimal digital collages and illustrations, Haya Al-Bassam creates work that tells a story about our everyday life.

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Faisal Mohammad tells us more about his concern for the transitioning Kuwaiti coastline & his most important tools as an artist.

Faisal Mohammad is a Kuwaiti artist. His personal work is an experimentation of modern expressionism and the personal interpretation of the Pop Art Movement from the 1950’s, one of his favorite art periods.

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Leena Al Ayoobi, fusing Arabian folk art and childhood memories of Japanese Manga.

Leena Al Ayoobi is a local Bahraini artist and designer. She introduces a new art style that is a fusion of Arabian folk art and Japanese manga, mainly influenced by the manga godfather Hayao Miyazaki. The cartoon was popular and still is popular in the Middle East. Find out more about Leena’s work!

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Get to know Abdulmalik Marwan Ghazzawi, a Saudi architect and carpenter.

Get to know Abdulmalik Marwan Ghazzawi, a Saudi architect and carpenter. He gives us an insight into stepping out of the two dimensional realm of interaction and engagement. Abdulmalik is also the founder of WoodFosterKSA, it bears the concept of rehabilitating unwanted wood through design principles & references from around the world.

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Kuwaiti Musician +Aziz on Khaleeji Rock, Mipsterz and the Emergence of KUWAISIANA.

Mohammed D. Fakhro is a Qatari writer interested in how we tell and experience stories, particularly of people and cultures. He interviewed +Aziz, a Kuwaiti musician who is developing KUWAISIANA, an 8-piece indie rock band based in New Orleans.

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Kuwaiti Artist Rua AlShaheen tells us about recycling existing elements to tell a new narrative.

We spoke with Kuwaiti artist Rua as she gives us an insight into her collage work as well as the inspiration behind her entire body of work.

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Ammar Alqamash on documenting creatives and encouraging dialogue about the art scene.

Ammar tells us more about his project documenting creatives of Qatar and his wish in starting dialogue about the local art scene. He also gives us an insight into his hopes of Art being seen in a different light as the more people join the new wave and start collaborating.

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Jaffar Al Haddad tells us more about his documentation of Manama through photography and his blog ‘Urban Journey’

Jaffar Al haddad is an Architecture student, a visual artist and a blogger. Jaffar continues to explore and document Manama through his camera lens in hopes to attract people of this generation to Manama’s rich culture.

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Artist Sarosh gives us an insight into her art that celebrate life in all its intricacies.

Sarosh’s artwork is an eclectic blend of pieces inspired by modern street art and graffiti and the centuries-old influence of mystic poetry and traditional Islamic calligraphy and design.