En juin 2020, le groupe Al Qasar sort son premier EP Miraj. Enregistré entre Paris et Los Angeles, mixé à Nashville et porté par une collaboration avec des musiciens égyptiens au Caire, ce premier opus fusionne les genres, du psychédélisme au garage rock et du oud à la guitare électrique. À l’origine de cette transe …
« Icon of Iranian culture », « Queen of Persian pop », « Timeless Diva » or even « Daughter of Iran », Googoosh gathers all the superlatives as she is the embodiment of Iranian cultural heritage. As a singer, actress and role model for youth at her peak in the 60s and 70s, Googoosh has been going through the ages, enjoying immense …
« Icône de la culture iranienne », « Reine de la pop persane », « Diva intemporelle » ou encore « fille de l’Iran », Googoosh réunit tous les superlatifs tant elle est l’incarnation du patrimoine culturel iranien. Chanteuse, actrice et modèle pour la jeunesse à son apogée dans les années 60 et 70, Googoosh …
Chicken with Plums / Poulet aux Prunes Marjane Satrapi, 2004. This graphic novel, made in 2004, narrates how Nasser Ali Khan, a famous târ player in Iran, decides to let himself die. Indeed, his târ is broken, and no other instrument sounds right anymore… Brokenhearted, the story relates the eights days during which Nasser renounces …
SYNOPSIS OF THE MOVIE CARAMEL Layale, a Lebanese Christian, runs the beauty salon « Si Belles« , located in a working-class district of Beirut, where five women work side by side. Through painful depilations, nail polish application and brushing, these women converse, joke and confide in each other : Layale lives an extramarital love story with Rabih, …
SYNOPSIS DU FILM CARAMEL Layale, libanaise chrétienne de confession, tient le salon de beauté « Si Belles », situé dans un quartier populaire de Beyrouth et dans lequel se côtoient cinq femmes. Au gré des épilations douloureuses, des poses de vernis et des brushings, ces femmes conversent, plaisantent et se confient : Layale; vit une histoire d’amour extraconjugale …
Felukah, Egyptian and New York-based artist, is the rising figure of the current hip-hop and soul scene. To celebrate the release of her second album, we invite you to discover her journey, her inspirations and her world made of music, poetry and dance. FROM EGYPT TO THE UNITED STATES Sara El Messiry was born in …
In December 1969, the fashion magazine Vogue publishes a wonderful series of photographs taken by Henry Clarke, the famous American fashion photographer. In this series, he photographs fashion under the Iranian sun, in majestic settings full of history. The models and actresses Marisa Berenson, Lauren Hutton and Cynthia Korman are the big stars posing in ancient …
Soapkills is the band resulting from the collaboration, from 1997, of two figures of the Lebanese music scene : musicians Yasmine Hamdan and Zeid Hamdan, both born in Beirut, unrelated despite their common name. Mixing classical Arabic music and electronic music for a unique and often hypnotic result, Soapkills then initiated a new musical wave in …
The omnipresence of flashy colours, kitsch prints and cans lined up in Hassan Hajjaj’s photos earned him the following nickname of « the master of Moroccan pop art ». Settled in London since the seventies, the artist is influenced both by his North African heritage and the underground culture of the English capital. His artistic universe builds …
