contributors

Behind red walls
Free art in Amman
A self-declared ‘haven for all arts,’ Darat el Funun is a meeting ground for Amman’s contemporary artists and creatives.

Lebanon’s informal art spaces
Activating new spaces to the public
There are several informal art spaces all around the country. Mashallah talks about three: Zico House, the Sanayeh residence, and the Batroun Art Proposal.

Tahrir, we love you
A tribute to the Egyptian people
This is Cairo when the people of Egypt started to fight for freedom. Without them, and a million people coming daily to Tahrir square, this revolution wouldn’t have happened.

Chaza Charafeddine: Dante, Muhammad and the buraq
The Divine Comedy in wonderland
Former dancer turned art curator, then visual artist, Chaza Charafeddine seems to have as many past lives as sources of interest. Mashallah met with her.

Shooting in Beirut
Discovering Dar al-Mussawir
Dar al-Mussawir, literally “the photographer’s house,” is a new space for photography and photo enthusiasts, in Beirut’s Hamra neighbourhood.

Bling-bling feminism
Joumana Haddad performed a marketing coup with her book ‘I killed Scheherazade’. But is it bold, or merely bling-bling feminism à la Sex and the City?

“Pidgin Madam”
When Singhalese meets Arabic
Mashallah is publishing articles on the topic of migration, covering a few aspects of this phenomena. Today: the emergence of a new language in Beirut.

Profession : ange-gardien
Arrivé au Liban en tant que domestique free-lance, Dipendra Uprety, du Népal, est devenu l’improbable ange-gardien des domestiques étrangères de son pays d’adoption.

The maids’ lucky star
Helping Nepali domestic workers
Dipendra Uprety left Nepal for Lebanon 10 years ago. There, he found himself an unexpected role: a guardian-angel for Beirut’s domestic worker.

Close Encounters
The first visual arts festival in Syria
Blogger and art curator Charlotte Bank directed in Damascus the exhibition Close Encounters, which featured nine Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian artists.
- Abby Sewell
- Abraham Zeitoun
- Adlène Meddi
- Afrah Nasser
- Alaa Balkhy
- Alessandra Bajec
- Alex Shams
- Alexander Christie-Miller
- Ali al-Ghazzawi
- Ali Hosseini
- Ali Taptık
- Alia Haju
- Amani Massoud
- Amro Ali
- Amro Okacha
- Andrea Olea
- Antonia Roupell
- Arnaud Contreras
- Asher Kohn
- Assem Hendawi
- Aude Thepenier
- Azita Houshiar
- Babelmed
- Basmah Felemban
- Brady NG
- Burak Taşdizen
- Caglar Kanzik
- Camille Abele
- Camille Leprince
- Carole Filiu
- Cassandra Tavukciyan
- Charlotte Bank
- Chloe Benoist
- Cihan Tekay
- Claudia Willmitzer
- Clément Girardot
- Conor Sreenan
- Constance Proux
- Correspondents
- Culinary Backstreets
- Cyril Dériaz
- Dania Al Husseini
- Danna Lorch
- Diala Gemayel
- Dilan Ayyıldız
- Doha Adi
- Ehsan Mirhoseyni
- Ella Wind
- Elturan Mammadov
- Emily Mourad Hanna
- Emre Şahin
- Eva Parey
- Farah Aridi
- Farea Al-Muslimi
- Farida Khalil
- Farshid Tighehsaz
- Farzaneh Bahrami
- Fatemeh Kavandi
- Fatih Pinar
- Fatih Tuncer
- Fatima Alhaji
- Félicité de Maupeou
- François Huguet
- Frederique Cifuentes
- Fullah Almajhula
- Gabriel Luis Manga
- Gary Grabli
- George Richards
- Ghadir Hamadi
- Gianluca Solera
- Giedre Steikunaite
- Gözde Kazaz
- Graham Liddell
- Gregory Dziedzic
- Habib Battah
- Haitham Alsarraf
- Hammoud Emjedel
- Hani Naim
- Hania Mourtada
- Hass Re-Volt
- Hassan Darsi
- Hatice Utkan
- Hawraa Adnan
- Hind Mezaina
- Hira Nabi
- Hussein El Hajj Hassan
- Ibrahim Nehme
- Ines Abdel Razek
- Isaac Oomen
- Isabelle Mayault
- Ismaël Abdallah
- Ivana Perić
- Jaad Gaillet
- Jad Baaklini
- Jadaliyya
- Jamal Penjweny
- Jay Cassano
- Jeffrey Gibbs
- Jenny Gustafsson
- JoAnna Pollonais
- Joanne Lisinska
- Joey Ayoub
- Joobin Bekhrad
- Josef Burton
- Joshua Allen
- Josselin Brémaud
- Joudy El-Asmar
- Julia Neumann
- Julien Pebrel
- Juliette Rabat
- Julius Matuschik
- Kais Zriba
- Karim Mostafa
- Katherine Long
- Kaveh Rostamkhani
- Kaya Genç
- Khalid Mezaina
- Kürşat Bayhan
- La revue de Téhéran
- Laetitia Lopez-Laraqui
- Lara Fresko
- Lara Tabet
- Larissa Araz
- Laurence Gnanguenon
- Layla Yammine
- Leeor Ohayon
- Liana Aghajanian
- Libalel
- Lilah Khoja
- Malek Khadhraoui
- Manzar Samii
- Marcia Lynx Qualey
- Margaret Scarborough
- Marianna Francese
- Marianne Roux
- Marie-Jeanne Berger
- Marie-Josée Daoud
- Marine Casalis
- Marion Guenard
- Marisol Rifai
- Martin Roux
- Matt Hanson
- McN
- Mélanie Matarese
- Melike Akova
- Mher Krikorian
- Micheline Tobia
- Miguel Soffia
- Mike Chevreuil
- Mohamed Samih Beji Okkaz
- Mohja Kahf
- Mustafa Saeed
- Mutlu Yetkin
- Myriam Amri
- Naila Missous
- Najwa Monique
- Naziha Arebi
- Nehme Jameli
- Nektaria Petrou
- Nesrine Dahmoun
- Nevin Öztop
- Nicolas Brodard
- Niloofar Sanandaji
- Nina Hubinet
- Niqash
- Nousha Kabawat
- Obaid Allah
- Övgü Ülgen
- Paola Salwan Daher
- Pascal Zoghbi
- Paul Benjamin Osterlund
- Paul Farrell
- Pauline Beugnies
- Pedro Barakat
- Philipp Breu
- Philippine Proux
- Priyanka Sacheti
- Rachida Ouar
- Rami Abdelrahman
- Rana Jarbou
- Raphaël Khouri
- Rasmus Bogeskov Larsen
- Rayan Sukkar
- Rehan Miskci
- Richard Pelgrim
- Rima Bugaighis
- Riyam Kafri AbuLaban
- Roubina Margossian
- Rustin Zarkar
- Sabry Khaled
- Sabyl Ghoussoub
- Salim Salamah
- Sam McNeil
- Samar Hazboun
- Samar Yazbek
- Samih Mahmoud
- Sana Sbouai
- Sandra Rishani
- Sarah Baba
- Sarah Essbai
- Sarah Khazem
- Sarah Lily Yassine
- Sarah Moawad
- Sedef Özge
- Senga
- Shaida Ghomashchi
- Sophie Chamas
- Svetlana Eremina
- Tala Abu Rahmeh
- Tamara Qiblawi
- Tilia Korpe
- Tinda Meuse
- Tine Lavent
- Vincent Cuny
- Vishnu Pasupathy
- Youssef Rakha