The Feminist Club Amsterdam
I sat during the lunch break trying to record a short video in Arabic about sexual harassment. Soon enough, a woman burst into the office and started shouting at me, telling me that I was too loud, speaking in a language she didn’t understand, that I should shut up because they were there for work. […]
In the crowd, a dove, preferably white, is held in a box or a cage.A few minutes later, someone arrives with bare hands, releases the dove, and sends it away.Afterwards, the crowd claps. The media takes photographs. And we totally forget: Why did the cage exist in the first place?Why was the dove captured?And who […]
Dear Hanaa, The First Generation of labels: Second Generation of labels A chronological disorder of home. Maybe it is the resistance to the normalized order. An intellectual, emotional transition that transfers home from solid ground to a global sky where anything could feel like home, and anyone can make a home. And this is overly […]
· Where do you come from? · Before I came to live in Slovenia, I lived for a few months in Germany, and before that, I lived my whole life in Jordan. So, am I coming from Jordan? · Oh, what a nice king and beautiful queen you have! […]
“The Strike of Mecca” A short story from the series of 1001 nights of “NOT your Scheherazade” by Samar Zughool. In 2011, I went to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, with my mother. I did not go there for answers; I already had them, but I went in my search for closure! For any kind of closure! […]
The Clash of Egos “We will Save Them from Us” and “We will Study Them to Upgrade Us.” As a performing artist and community art director, I often come across the concept of identity, which triggers me personally and professionally. Therefore, in this article, I investigate these triggers from a starting point of “what is […]