Nasser and the African Revolution
Politically and socially Egypt is said to occupy three spaces as mentioned in President Gamal Abdul Nasser’s booklet Philosophy of the Revolution- Arab, Islamic and African( in that order). However this does not reflect the real priority Nasser gave to relations with other Independent African States and Liberation Movements during the fight against colonialism. The […]
Ibrahim El-Salahi
By Michael Vasquez Ibrahim El-Salahi had a show at the Tate Modern in 2013. It was an amazing retrospective – it also had vitrines filled with the material culture by which his work entered into the international art world. He came into the art world in the early 1960s, and he came through various publications. […]
Entretien Bouchra Khalili
An interview with Bouchra Khalili by Cedric Vincent Bouchra Khalili (née à Casablanca 1975), lauréate du prix SAM pour l’art contemporain 2013, présente son installation Foreign Office (2015) qui revient sur la décennie algérienne 1962-1972, lorsqu’Alger était labellisée « capitale des révolutionnaires ». Dans l’espace du Palais de Tokyo (Paris), l’installation se parcourt idéalement de gauche à droite […]
1966
By Michael Vasquez After World War II, the idea was that there was going to be a cultural cold war and that it was going to be fought between the non-communist left and the – there was no right; the right was discredited by fascism – so the war was actually between the lefts… So, […]
Hiwar
By Michael Vasquez The journal that the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) published in Beirut, Hiwar, was immediately controversial. It was founded in 1962 by a Palestinian Christian modernist poet and translator of TS Eliot – a somewhat perverse figure named Tawfiq Sayigh. Sayigh published many of his poems in his journal, including “A Few Questions […]