In Damascus, art re-emerges: 'We feel free and, at the same time, we're still afraid'
Assad's fall enabled the Zawaya Art Gallery to emerge from semi-secrecy. Filmmaker Oussama Mohammed returned from exile for a ...
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Syria’s golden age of art at risk of being forgotten, experts say
Since the Assad regime fell after more than 50 years in power, the extent of Syria’s cultural isolation is becoming clear.
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How artist blacksmith and bladesmith Owen Bush forges a modern Damascus knife
His artistically forged, welded and fabricated metalwork encompasses Damascus knives, swords and axes influenced by Saxon bladesmithing from the seventh to the ninth century. Owen forges a modern ...
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Art Exhibition depicts the people’s fatigue during the era of deposed regime
Damascus, SANA -Sculptor Mumtaz Shaib expressed through his sculptures the Syrian people’s fatigue during the defunct regime’s era in his solo exhibition that opened at the Blue House Gallery in ...
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Post-Assad, Damascus is coming back to life. But Syria’s artists fear a new clampdown under Islamist rule
For him, it’s never been about personal recognition – it’s about the art. But as the manager of the Madad cultural center in Damascus, the trained lighting technician has reason to worry.