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Unearthing an Old Wound

Thomas Thompson April 9, 2018

al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raʼūf, al-Nabsh fī jurḥ qadīm (Jiddah, al-Mamlakah al-ʻArabiyyah al-Saʻūdiyyah: Tihāmah, 1981)

Tags Saudi Arabia, 1980s, Painting, Drawing

Death of the Teacher Ḥannā

Thomas Thompson April 4, 2018

Aḥmad Ṣabrī Abū al-Futūḥ (al-Qāhirah: Mīrīt li-l-Nashr wa-l-Maʻlūmāt, 2002)

Tags Egypt, Cairo, 2000s, Painting

No Sun Over the City

Thomas Thompson April 3, 2018

Ghālib Ḥamzah Abū al-Faraj (Bayrūt: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīdah, 1990)

Tags 1990s, Beirut, Lebanon, Painting

Faces Without Makeup

Thomas Thompson March 27, 2018

Ghālib Ḥamzah Abū al-Faraj, Wujūh bi-lā makyāj ; wa, Qulūb mallat al-tirḥāl : rīwayatān (Bayrūt: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīdah, 1985)

Tags Lebanon, 1980s, Novel, Painting

An Electrified Woman: Short Stories

Thomas Thompson March 20, 2018

Thurayyā al-Baqṣamī, Imraʾah mukahrabah: majmūʿah qiṣasiyyah (Bayrūt: Dār al-Fārābī, 2004)

Tags Drawing, Painting, Lebanon

The Heart of Hell

Thomas Thompson March 16, 2018

Barāʾ al-Khaṭīb, Qalb jahannam (al-Qāhirah: al-Dār, 2010)

 

Tags Egypt, Egyptian, 2010s, Painting, Novel

Naked Days

Thomas Thompson March 15, 2018

Naṣr Bilḥājj Bilṭayyib (Tūnis: al-Sharikah al-Tūnisīyah li-l-Nashr wa-Tanmiyat Funūn al-Rasm, 2002)

Tags Tunisia, 2000s, Painting

al-Karrūsah: wa-ḥikāyāt ukhrā

Thomas Thompson March 14, 2018

 

Ḥasanayn Bin ʻAmmū (Tūnis: al-Sharikah al-Tūnisiyyah li-l-Nashr wa-Tanmīyat Funūn al-Rasm, 1999)

Tags Tunisia, 1990s, Painting

Murād al-Thālith

Thomas Thompson March 12, 2018

al-Ḥabīb Bū al-Aʻrās (Tūnis: Mīdyā Kūm, 1999)

Tags 1990s, Tunisia, Painting

Yasin and Bahiyyah, by Naguib Surur

Thomas Thompson February 14, 2018
Tags Egypt, Drawing, Painting

A Painting from al-Ḥājj's The Messenger with Her Long Hair (2)

Thomas Thompson February 5, 2018
Tags Lebanon, Armenia, Lebanese, Armenian, Painting, 1970s

A Painting from al-Ḥājj's The Messenger with Her Long Hair

Thomas Thompson February 2, 2018

The paintings in this book are by Paul Guiragossian, an Armenian forced out of Palestine--where he was born--in 1947. He became an important figure in the Beirut art scene. For more information, see here.

Tags Painting, 1970s, Beirut, Lebanon

Ḥakīm's On Borrowed Time

Thomas Thompson January 19, 2018

al-Qāhirah: Markaz al-Ahrām li-l-Tarjamah wa-l-Nashr, Muʼassasat al-Ahrām, 1987

Tags Egypt, 1980s, Painting

A Sparrow from the East

Thomas Thompson January 8, 2018

al-Qāhirah : Dār al-Maʻārif, 1974

Tags Egypt, Novel, Painting

Long Live Algeria - Painting Six

Thomas Thompson November 20, 2017

Ḥiwār, Jan. 1963, p. 103. Painting by Aref Rayess

Tags Algeria, Lebanon, Painting, 1960s

Long Live Algeria - Painting Five

Thomas Thompson November 19, 2017

Ḥiwār, Jan. 1963, p. 102. Painting by Aref Rayess

Tags Algeria, Lebanon, 1960s, Painting

Long Live Algeria - Painting Four

Thomas Thompson November 18, 2017

Painting by Aref Rayess. Ḥiwār Jan. 1963, p. 102.

Tags Algeria, Lebanon, 1960s, Painting

Long Live Algeria - Painting Three

Thomas Thompson November 17, 2017

Ḥiwār, Jan. 1963, p. 101. Painting by Aref Rayess

Tags Painting, Algeria, Lebanon, 1960s

Taḥyah li-l-Jazāʾir by ʿĀrif al-Rayyis

Thomas Thompson November 15, 2017

Ḥiwār, Jan. 1963, p. 99.  Painting by Aref Rayess

Tags Painting, Lebanon, 1960s, Algeria

Painting by Lūr Ghurayyib

Thomas Thompson November 14, 2017

Ḥiwār, Jan. 1963, p. 72. Painting by poet, journalist, and artist Laure Ghorayeb

Tags Lebanon, 1960s, Painting
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