PODCAST: Gallery Girl Meets Saria Sakka

November 18, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

On this episode of the Gallery Girl podcast I am joined by Saria Sakka, a Lebanese art professional who seeks to preserve, promote and celebrate Lebanese and Levantine arts and crafts.

Photography For The Love Of Beirut

August 10, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Ruwa and Gulf Photo Plus have just launched For the Love of Beirut, a photographic print sale in partnership with Beirut Center ofPhotography, In My House, and Jadaliyya to celebrate a love and intimate appreciation for the city, and to support the communities affected by the blast.

Jean Boghossian @ L’Orient Le Jour Building, Beirut Souks

October 17, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Fire. One of the four elements. The one that has the power to scorch, destroy and ruin. To look at, it is spellbinding, a red-yellow-orange flame that transfixes as it burns. But through destruction fire also brings light and the opportunity for renewal. In Building with Fire Jean Boghossian uses fire as an artistic medium, creating […]

Akram Zaatari @ New Art Exchange

August 8, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

Have we forgotten? Don’t we remember how it used to be, you and I? When we laughed, louder and louder Our innocent heartbeat, Our memories, our moments together Was it all an illusion? On the ground-floor gallery of the New Art Exchange in Nottingham, a four-channel film is projected in the round like a psychedelic […]

Mona Saudi @ Saleh Barakat

October 10, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

To stones from which we build an ocean of dreams To stones where beginnings and endings abide… …To stones in which I chisel a path for the soul To stones that I touch, and the vapors of love arise And as I polish them my soul thins out And the gods of mystery talk to […]