{"id":3410,"date":"2014-02-22T12:04:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T11:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/now\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2016-03-28T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T13:36:42","slug":"news-special-projects-and-exhibitions-2014-occupied-pleasures-persia-mon-amour-comic-life-of-beirut-and-many-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/en\/news-special-projects-and-exhibitions-2014-occupied-pleasures-persia-mon-amour-comic-life-of-beirut-and-many-others\/","title":{"rendered":"EXHIBITIONS 2014: Occupied Pleasures, Persia Mon Amour, Comic Life of Beirut and many other special projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Occupied
\n<\/a>Occupied Pleasures, Persia Mon Amour, Comic Life of Beirut and many other\u00a0special projects.\u00a0Middle East Now is not only cinema, it showcases also photography, art projects, talks, food and special events, that tell the many facets of contemporary culture from tha Middle East and North Africa.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Among the special events at this edition:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Occupied<\/a><\/p>\n

OCCUPIED PLEASURES by Tanya Habjouqa<\/strong>: the first Italian exhibition of the Palestinian photographer, on stage at Aria Art Gallery in Florence (11 April-11 May 2014).
\nTanya Habjouqa is a recipient of the Magnum Foundation 2013 Emergency Fund and with this project has just won World Press Photo 2014.\u00a0OCCUPIED PLEASURES<\/strong>\u00a0explores those rare moments of respite for Palestinians living under arduous political and economic conditions, which have shaped their lives and identities for decades, and will be presented for the first time in Italy as special event of Middle East Now 2014. From a besieged Gaza where a five-minute boat ride is the epitome of freedom for a generation of youth imprisoned in a densely populated enclave to women stretching in yoga positions against the West Bank hills on outskirts of Bethlehem. Despite the inability of Palestinians to maintain and sustain a \u201cnormal way of life,\u201d and amidst this jarring reality, men, women and children often manage to steal moments of simple joys \u2013 quirky, modest moments of happiness that range from taking a spin on a merry go-around to taking a horse ride, or imagining a tropical adventure all the while standing against a colorful back drop with a live parakeet in a modest studio in a refugee camp. In humor there is often sadness, longing for more possibility. OCCUPIED PLEASURES brings together glimmers of hope, dignity and laughter; all of which override the emblematic stresses of an occupied reality.<\/p>\n


\n\"Persia
\n<\/a><\/b>
\nPERSIA MON AMOUR<\/strong>, a project by Edoardo Delille & Jacopo Storni<\/strong>\u00a0especially conceived and produced by Middle East Now Festival 2014.<\/strong>
\n<\/span>A reportage and a photographic exhibition on Iranians living in Florence, that will be on stage in an unusual location of the city,\u00a0the sophisticated Boralevi Carpet Gallery<\/strong> in Via Maggio 16\/r, from\u00a012 to 28 April 2014.<\/strong>\u00a0Florence has one of the largest community of Iranians in Italy, a community which has more than 1,000 residents (the highest concentration of Iranian citizens for an Italian city), and among these there is also a very large community of students and young people. The project by the photographer artist Edoardo Delille and the journalist Jacopo Storni (Corriere della Sera) will represent the microcosm of the \u201cIranians of Florence\u201d through a series of 20 portraits: images that recount their stories, depicting two worlds so far so close, about love and hate for Iran, \u201ca country veiled and oppressed, unique and unforgettable\u201d. For them Iran does not mean nuclear energy, Iran means \u201cta’arof\u201d. They say that Florence is their future, but Persia knocks at the door of their hearts.<\/p>\n

\"Comic<\/a><\/p>\n

THE COMIC CITY OF BEIRUT
\n<\/b>IED \u2013 Istituto Europeo di Design di Firenze<\/strong>\u00a0(Via Bufalini, 6\/r)
\n10 April \u2013 30 April
\nExhibition Opening Thursday 10 April_06.00pm
\n<\/b>The presentation of new issue of the Middle East Now Magazine <\/b>in collaboration with IED European Institute of Design in Florence: the magazine of the festival is dedicated to “The Comic Life of Beirut”<\/b>, to the absurdities and paradoxes of daily life in one of the most vibrant capital of the Middle East as seen through the pencil of two of the most talented Lebanese illustrators – Raphaelle Macaron and Joseph Kai – who will talk with irony about the contradictions of living in Beirut. And their drawings will be protagonists of an exhibition on stage at the IED in Florence.<\/p>\n


\nSpecial participations:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

\"BROWNBOOK<\/a>
\n_ The participation of <\/b>BROWNBOOK<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a>,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0the magazine dedicated to contemporary culture in the Middle East, will present in Florence its Urban Series by Brownbook<\/i>,<\/strong> video portraits of personalities and creative minds from the world of art and contemporary Middle Eastern lifestyle. Brownbook will contribute also to the talk “Creativity in the contemporary Middle East: video, graphics, food and design”,\u00a0 in partnership with CCCS Palazzo Strozzi (Thursday, April 10 at 6.30pm ). Brownbook magazine will be also special partne<\/strong>r in supporting the first concert in Italy of the famous Lebanese indie-rock band Mashrou’ Leila<\/strong> (Friday, April 11th<\/sup>, 10.00pm at Auditorium Flog – Florence).<\/p>\n

\"Fasateen
\n_ The project SOUND MIDDLE EAST NOW<\/b>: the music will have a special place in this year’s festival , through the presentation of a selection of “best of” from the music videos from all over the Middle East and North Africa, which will take to the big screen works which represent\u00a0 creativity and visual storytelling; a project curated by Iranian musician and DJ Saeed Aman. Among the video clips: “Lil Watan” by Mashrou Leila (Lebanon), ” No Woman No Drive” by\u00a0 Alaa Wardi & Hisham Fageeh (Saudi Arabia), “Wa Ollak Eh” by Hamza Namira (Egypt) then the Iranian singer Niaz Nawab with “Raft or Gozasht” and many others.<\/p>\n

`
\n_ The installation MIDDLE EAST CUISINE BOOKS,<\/b> curated by\u00a0 the group of architects Archivio Personale<\/i><\/strong>, which brings at the Odeon Cinema\u00a0 a selection of the best cuisine books from North Africa and the Middle East.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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