Fresh off a Canadian Screen Award for his song the The Crown Sleeps for the Angelina Jolie produced film The Breadwinner, Qais Essar brings us his most ambitious and conceptual work to date: The Ghost You Love Most. Similar to previous works, the album reflects Qais’s Afghan-American identity. Essar’s life…
Meet Adnan Samman – the Young Artist Using Nostalgia to Address the Syrian Crisis
I wrote the following article for Mvslim.com about the life and work of Adnan Samman: Adnan Samman is a talented up and coming visual artist and musician from Hama, Syria. He left Syria at a young age and has moved from country to country ever since. His best known works use imagery from the past…
Vulnerability
Abdalla Al Omari’s Vulnerability Series tackles the refugee crisis in a refreshing way that quite frankly hasn’t been done before. We are living in a time where people are frustrated with world leaders for not doing enough. Rather than using this anger to paint our politicians in a negative light, Al Omari tries to appeal…
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians
Shirin Aliabadi’s Miss Hybrid Series was recently introduced as part of the Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians exhibition. Aliabadi uses exaggerated portraits to show how growing dissatisfaction with government limitations in Iran has led many young citizens to rebel. Although instead of weapons and ammunition, this rebellion involves consumerism, pop culture, and fashion. The…
Salam
Salam and welcome to the site. For those of you who don’t know Artummah was founded in response to decades of negative stereotypes and media portrayals as a way to showcase the contemporary culture of the Middle East and North Africa that is seldomly seen in the United States. The word ‘ummah’, in its original…
