A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession — Albert Camus
Staging a revolution–A man nails posters titled ‘Lessons in Revolting’ on a wall by the entrance to Rawabet, a small theatre in downtown Cairo…Read it at The Caravan
The Baggage We Carry–An artist from Pakistan and another from India tell the same story in their works—of women in chains…Read it at Open Magazine
A Story Like No Other – A Nepali man’s extraordinary journey into a world of Surrealism and American legends…Read it at The Caravan
Emergence of an India Wanda Sykes– “Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a faraway land called India, I used to be a virgin,” Radhika Vaz tells an audience over tea and cake…Read it at Huffington Post
The Art of Violence–As violence sweeps the Muslim world, artists in Pakistan and Jordan respond to their changing worlds…Read it at The Daily Beast
Nude Art Mag Riles Middle East–When the eighth issue of Jasad—a Beirut-based cutting edge art magazine—rolls out next month, it will be the face of criticism and denouncement throughout the Middle East…Read it at The Daily Beast
Batman Comic Writer Renovates India’s Ancient Epic–A Scottish comic books writer is telling one of the world’s oldest stories as a new-age, sci-fi mythical narrative. The animated television series and video game, the creators say, will be like a “Psychedelic Lord of the Rings with Star Wars technology”… Read it at Huffington Post
Suicide Bombers in Love–Young Iranian artist Arien Valizadeh re-imagines modern terrorists through the prism of ‘50s pulp comic romances…Read it at The Daily Beast
The Rise of Islamo-Erotica–Ignoring the prohibition of nudity, Muslim artists—many of them women—are now defying religious tenets by painting naked models in pinup poses…Read it at The Daily Beast