Opening this Saturday, the event will screen five feature films and 37 shorts representing 22 countries and regions.
SWANA
New Show of Islamic Art Explores the Pleasure of Eating Together
Dining With the Sultan at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art examines food and culinary customs in 250 works from Southwest Asia, North Africa, and beyond.
How Are Pakistani Artists Grappling With the Climate Crisis?
Local artists invoke nostalgia, probe policymakers, and take aim at public perception to shift attitudes toward natural resources and waste management.
Sarah K. Khan’s Feminist Take on a 16th-Century Cookbook
Her work brilliantly reframes age-old storylines from a Persian cookbook as modern allegories for female liberation.
SWANA Women Artists Deserve Better
The exhibition Women Defining Women at LACMA suffers from poorly defined parameters and a weak understanding of its own premise.
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.”