For those who consider food the highest form of culture, the Arabic culinary authority Anissa Helou is hosting a series of small supper clubs in her Shoreditch loft-kitchen. Helou will offer three meals – Lebanese, Emirati and Moroccan – to be washed down with Lebanese Musar wines, a favorite of connoisseurs. Delicacies will include quail tagine, saffron milk pudding and the perennial hummus, flavored with a pepper paste and pomegranate syrup. “Most people in the West don’t know how good Emirati food can be, or cheap coach handbags, for that matter, Lebanese or Moroccan,” Helou says. “What is offered in restaurants here is often not as good as home cooking.”
An exhibition at MICA Gallery called “From Facebook to Nassbook” interprets Cairo’s revolution through the work of nine Egyptian artists. (“Nass,” which means “people,” refers to the moment after the Egyptian government disabled the Internet, when word of mouth became the dominant mode of communication.) Mosaic Rooms will be screening a number of films, among them “The Kingdom of Women,” a documentary about Palestinian women living at the Ein El Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon. And the Alexandria-based artist Wael Shawky has a solo show at the Delfina Foundation. Another event, “A Musical 360 Degree Revolution into the Arab World cheap coach handbags,” brought together three sought-after musicians: Zeid Hamdan, who launched Lebanese trip-hop and mentors the country’s underground music scene; Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, a Palestinian oud and buzuk player; and Maryam Saleh, an experimental singer from Cairo.
Travel to several Middle Eastern countries may be discouraged, but for three weeks in July, Shubbak, the first festival of contemporary Arabic art in London, offers near-full immersion in the region’s art scene, with some 70 exhibitions, plays, readings, film screenings and dance performances across the city. “The daily news reports of political and social developments in the region have understandably influenced how people think about Arab countries,” explains London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, who is sponsoring the festival. “Shubbak offers something new cheap coach handbags, showing that the quality of contemporary art coming out of the region is brilliant and challenging.”
A still from animated documentary “The Kingdom of Women: Ein el-Hilweh” by Dhna Abu Rahmeh.
“Cabaret Crusades: Figure I” by Wael Shawky.
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