Creating Spaces of Freedom: Culture in Defiance

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Creating Spaces of Freedom: Culture in Defiance

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For centuries, people in the creative arts, when faced with severe threats to their cultural free expression, have sought alternative strategies and platforms. Whether Sudanese or Algerian, whether fleeing vicious civil wars or governmental oppression, unrecognised artists and musicians have found ways of avoiding limitations and transcending repercussions.

Softcover

196 pages

Dimensions: 22 x 17 x 1.27 cm

ISBN: 9780863567360

Publisher: Saqi Books

Published June 01, 2002

Weight: 0.4 kg

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Els van der Plas (Netherlands) is an art historian and curator; she founded the Gate Foundation, an intercultural art exchange organisation, in 1987, and has organized numerous international art exhibitions and workshops.

Malu Halasa is Editor-at-Large for Portal 9: Stories and Critical Writing about the City, a new journal from Beirut. Her exhibitions include ‘Culture in Defiance,’ on the art of the Syrian uprising for the Prince Claus Fund Gallery; and 'Art and Documentary' from Iran for the Atrium Gallery, LSE.

Marlous Willemsen (Netherlands) is the policy officer for the Prince Claus Fund. She has studied Arabic and Islamic Art. Before joining the Fund she managed the Centre of Islamic Art in Rotterdam.

Canvas is a bi-monthly magazine distributed across the world and offering the very best in art and culture from the Middle East and beyond. With intelligent in-depth articles on everything from the visual arts to museums, galleries, photography and design, each issue carries an exclusive feature.

Saqi Books is a leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa with two imprints: Westbourne Press is committed to releasing engaging works that offer an alternative, progressive perspective on the leading issues of our time, and Telegram publishes new and classic international writing.

Els van der Plas (Netherlands) is an art historian and curator; she founded the Gate Foundation, an intercultural art exchange organisation, in 1987, and has organized numerous international art exhibitions and workshops.

Malu Halasa is Editor-at-Large for Portal 9: Stories and Critical Writing about the City, a new journal from Beirut. Her exhibitions include ‘Culture in Defiance,’ on the art of the Syrian uprising for the Prince Claus Fund Gallery; and 'Art and Documentary' from Iran for the Atrium Gallery, LSE.

Marlous Willemsen (Netherlands) is the policy officer for the Prince Claus Fund. She has studied Arabic and Islamic Art. Before joining the Fund she managed the Centre of Islamic Art in Rotterdam.

Canvas is a bi-monthly magazine distributed across the world and offering the very best in art and culture from the Middle East and beyond. With intelligent in-depth articles on everything from the visual arts to museums, galleries, photography and design, each issue carries an exclusive feature.

Saqi Books is a leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa with two imprints: Westbourne Press is committed to releasing engaging works that offer an alternative, progressive perspective on the leading issues of our time, and Telegram publishes new and classic international writing.

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