Art
Two SWANA Artists’ Vision for a City of the Future
Dahlia Elsayed and Andrew Haik Demirjian imagine “Mustaqbaaaahpolis” as a city free from “extraction, time scarcity, and exploitation.”
Arab American National Museum
Art
Reveling in Female Interiority and Soft Power
Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s solo exhibition, soft powers, establishes a tension between opacity and transparency via her creation of an interactive bedroom space.
Art
Artists and Poets Look at Homelands from a Distance
The Far Shore: Navigating Homelands at the Arab American National Museum amplifies individual immigrant voices, presenting them as fully human rather than as statistical abstractions.
Interview
A Comics Artist Draws the Experiences of Palestinian Refugees and Immigrants
Leila Abdelrazaq elaborates on her representation of the Palestinian diaspora and the ability for comics to convey dense issues in a more easily digestible format.