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Untitled 3, by Thameur Mejri (Tunisia)
This work was created in response to poetic texts written by Habibah Sheikh, a nomadic performance artist originally from Lebanon, and the curator of the exhibition, Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me). In the text, a character named Ruba experiences…
Untitled 2, by Thameur Mejri (Tunisia)
This work was created in response to poetic texts written by Habibah Sheikh, a nomadic performance artist originally from Lebanon, and the curator of the exhibition, Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me). In the text, a character named Ruba experiences…
Untitled 1, by Thameur Mejri (Tunisia)
This work was created in response to poetic texts written by Habibah Sheikh, a nomadic performance artist originally from Lebanon, and the curator of the exhibition, Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me). In the text, a character named Ruba experiences…
Egyptian Dispatches, by Stephen Perkins (USA)
This blog documents two trips I took to Cairo, Egypt, in 2013 to visit my Armenian-Egyptian and American wife. Things were tense in this period as the reaction to the Muslim Brotherhood's new government was taking hold. Intertwined within the larger…
Extreme, by Sinan Hussein (Iraq)
This work was created in response to poetic texts written by Habibah Sheikh, a nomadic performance artist originally from Lebanon, and the curator of the exhibition, Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me). In the text, a character named Ruba experiences…
Sectarian Asylum, by Sinan Hussein (Iraq)
This work was created in response to poetic texts written by Habibah Sheikh, a nomadic performance artist originally from Lebanon, and the curator of the Mitli Mitlak exhibition. In the text, a character named Ruba experiences the destruction of war…
Just A Concert, by Sinan Hussein (Iraq)
“I did not paint the perilous seas, nor the streets of homelessness, associated with refugees”, explains Sinan Hussein. This painting is of a party with refugee guests. Each guest brings his or her social mask in hand, ready to wear. These party…
Art as Resistance: A Story from Immigration Detention, by Sarah Turnbull, Joanne Vincett, and Gabi Fröden (UK)
This public engagement project aims to foster public awareness of the lived experiences of people who are separated from their families and made vulnerable and marginalised by the state in indefinite immigration detention in the UK. Through…
The Exiled-2, by Qais Al-Sindy (USA)
This painting is no. #2 of the series of 'Exiled'. I tried to capture the inner feeling of those who are forced to leave their houses, families, friends, the most; their homeland. These feelings are hard to depict as they are very deep. How do you…