Reconnecting Arts

Threat Levels by Nadim Choufi

A neighbor dozes off for another hour and another neighbor rearranges seven powdered milk tin jars on her windowsill, each anchoring a local aloe above ground zero the way refugees anchor the sea, underneath the girls with their backpacks rendezvous for the first cigarette tasting the offspring of ash in case they never reach the […]

Artists, Interview

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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TRANSITION – 3 WEEKS OF EMERGING ARAB ARTISTS SHOWCASING THEIR WORK IN LONDON.

Reconnecting Arts an artist led platform presents, TRANSITION a showcase of over 30 emerging Middle Eastern Artists reflecting on the ways transition has taken place in their life.

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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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DIY Cultures – The Fair for Zines, Comics and Alternatives!

Reconnecting Arts is pleased to be participating in the DIY Cultures Zine Fair in London this May. Check out and Purchase Zines, Comics & Alternatives made by Middle Eastern Creatives.

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Aisha Al Sowaidi, merging old experiences and contemporary design.

Aisha Al-Sowaidi is a multidisciplinary designer based in Doha, Qatar. Her designs are an expression of a local designer towards the fast developing Qatar. Her work incorporates old experiences and behaviours with contemporary design in objects used within the house to maintain the feeling of being home.