Teaserbild Überleben mit Kunst ©The image was created with AI.
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Focus topic
 Surviving with Art

Art is often poorly paid and artists have to fight for funding for their projects and their own survival. How do artists in the region manage? What new ideas and concepts are there?
Portraits of 3 women. From left to right: Maha Wafy, female ambulance officer of the Palestinian Red Crescent, Enaam Al-Agha, known as Um Fathy, community aid, and Ola Kasseb, female journalist and member of the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate. ©egab.co
©egab.co

Community  3 min In wartime Gaza, Women Step Up To Help Their Communities

Amidst a 10-month war that has claimed over 39,000 lives and has driven nearly 2.3 million Gazans on daily scavenges for the basic necessities to survive, women are facing disproportionate challenges, navigating displacement and violence alongside severe lack of hygiene products and inability to access essential healthcare. Nevertheless many women have become pillars of their communities, helping others wherever they can, providing much needed help and saving lives. Mohamed Solaimane met 3 of them in Gaza. 
Palestinian territories
A collage of various images from the El Asfaar project


El Asfaar

El Asfaar collects 12 insightful reports from the lives of people in North Africa and the Middle East. With El Asfaar, the Goethe-Instituts North Africa/Middle East and the Reportageschule Reutlingen want to promote solution-oriented and differentiated foreign reporting on North Africa/Middle East, young journalism and intercultural journalistic exchange.
Exhibition "TRUST(ful)" ©Canva/ divers
©Canva/ divers


Exhibition “TRUST(ful)”

Ten photographers and ten poets from nine different countries in North Africa and the Middle East together created, invited by RUYA, ten diverse works on the topic of trust. Each exhibit consists of an original poem accompanied by a photograph or series of photographs. The exhibition takes place as part of the Kultursymposium Weimar 2023.
Three comic books lying on a table. ©egab.co

Surviving with Art2 min Unveiling the Vibrant World of Arab Comic Artists

A street, the corniche walk of Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia with a pattern of colours. Two people are standing in the background talking to each other. The street is surrounded by palm trees. ©Jawaher Alghamdi

Surviving with Art2 min Saudi’s art boom opens doors for local talents, but many struggle to devote to it

Saudi Arabia
Dr. Shahir Maged Mikhail ©Privat

Surviving with Art2 min Dr. Shahir Maged Mikhail: From orthopedist to full-time artist

Egypt
Scene from Asim Aziz film “1941” ©Asim Aziz

Surviving with Art4 min The Yemeni Art Scene: An Ancient Cultural Vortex

Yemen
An almost 30m mural of Omar Sharif in 11 Jean Jaque in Geneva, Swiss. ©Privat

Surviving with Art2 min “I find it crucial for artists to invest their money”

Egypt
An illustration of an industrially dystopic world AI generated image
AI generated image


Sustainable production for a future worth living

Living sustainably and consuming in an environmentally friendly way: That's what more and more people want. But how can production be truly sustainable and what are the conditions for this? What initiatives are there in the MENA region and how do they try to implement sustainability, including from social and ethical aspects, in their production processes? And why is that so important?

Yemen Wakes up to Coffee as Farmers Cut Qat ©Canva

Sustainable Agriculture3 min Yemen Wakes up to Coffee as Farmers Cut Qat

Yemen
Olives before pressing. Fortolivo oil mill. ©Left: Office National de l'Huile; Center & right: Aziza Gorgi

Reimagining the Industry5 min Towards a new model for the Tunisian olive oil industry

Tunisia
We highlight three professions that have witnessed changes in customer demand, revealing the shifts in Lebanese consumption patterns. ©Firas Hamiye

Socioeconomics and sustainability5 min How Has Lebanon’s Economic Crisis Changed Patterns of Consumption?

Lebanon
Morocco’s Carpet-Weavers © Ismail Ait Hammad

Morocco’s Carpet-Weavers5 min Women Pioneering Change in the Ouazguit Amazigh tribes

Morocco
Food for Peace Stamps ©United States "Food for Peace" Program

The Politics of Food2 min Learning to Love Baguette

Tunisia

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