A teach-in aimed to help DC-based activists connect with the Palestinian struggle
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“The closest and most intimate piece of me is my Muslim identity,” she said. “My written pieces open and knock on different doors in my mind and on different layers of the self.”
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With sparkling prose and deeply built characters, Leila Rafei’s debut novel tells the story of Egypt’s 2011 revolution from three alternating perspectives.
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During the COVID crisis, artists and arts organizations need our support. In our new blog, learn how to support local arts, find innovative programs and online programming started up during quarantine, & discover local artists.
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Carrie Callaghan’s historical novel Salt the Snow is so rich in detail that I found myself transported to the streets of 1930s Moscow. The frigid cold of the Russian winter is palpable—along with the stark living conditions, the nineteenth century mansion that’s been repurposed as a newspaper office …
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While other American girls were joining girl scouts and sports teams, Keena lived in a tent and learned to track and watch out for wild animals, like elephants, leopards, hippos, impala, kudu, and even lions. Except, that is, whenever her parents needed to return to Philadelphia.
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The Havel Project reminds us that the stubborn determination of the individual can undermine totalitarian systems, and that revolutions can be born of childlike imagination and whimsical fun.
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When you start reading Maryland native Rion Amilcar Scott’s new short story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You, you realize, almost from the first page, that this is something special.
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This is what Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art at the Freer | Sackler Gallery commented when asked about the American media’s portrayal of the exhibit, My Iran: Six Women Photographers, currently on view at the gallery.
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Still vocally vibrant and pushing artistic boundaries, Meredith Monk and her vocal ensemble performed her piece Cellular Songs at the Rasmusen Theater located in the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC.
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“I’m accepting the structure, but I couldn’t fit in it. I had to break it.”- Ebtisam Abdul Aziz
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