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Saudi culture is being reimagined on a grand scale by a new generation of writers, filmmakers, and poets who are rising to redefine the kingdom as the center of cultural renaissance. Vision 2030, a government-sanctioned vision of diversification and culture, is at the forefront as artists are leading the charge of a new art movement dedicated to finding a balance between heritage and fresh vision.
The new film is a new frontier for storytelling and the directors are breaking boundaries in stories of identity, social revolution, and...
By Layla Al-Hadhrami ~
Wear on fabric-made clothes is to inherit centuries of heritage. In the nook and cranny of Yemen, fabrics are uttering determination and identity.
Wherever you walk through souks of a...
Step into the Limelight
Saudi culture is being reimagined on a grand scale by a new generation of writers, filmmakers, and poets who are rising to redefine the kingdom as the center of cultural...
Omani national identity has been very well described in the language of fashion, and tradition costume increasingly becomes contemporary fashion. Edge-to-the-moment contemporary fashion cultures of such nature are indication of cultural richness in Oman and...
A health movement based on heritage has therefore become warranted by Syrian heritage dating back as far as ancient years. Syria is a green, fertile ground, a land which even today still conceals...
A revolution in Saudi art has swept across Saudi Arabia, restoring traditional country art and regarding new creativity trends to emerge. The revolution is more vital nationally in the struggle to retain historic...
Youth are currently driving the country towards its cultural rebirth since their creativity is also revitalizing the country's culture in spite of the current economic and political crises. The creativity of the youth is finding its inspiration from abundant resources to create artwork that is native to the nation's heritage without losing sight of the current global trends.
Teenagers in Tripoli and Beirut have transformed street space into murals galleries. Murals representations convey identity, social commentary, and messages of solidarity that make them controversial and require translation. Lebanese society's hopes and grievance are iconically addressed in absolute terms through the paintings.
Music is also brought into the limelight with this cultural...
Story, music, and dance are the colossus instruments of nationalism that draw rich inspirations from the history, geographical, and cultural origins of the country in Oman. The genres of music are vibrant and energetic in the rural as well as urban landscapes, well-established traditions sustained and including the modern preferences of the masses.
There was Omani music in highly textured influences themselves that had driven the Sultanate of sea trade and cross-cultural interaction centuries earlier. From across the ancient trade routes, Oman had attracted arts palates from Persia, India, and Africa. The traditional music typically consisted of instruments like oud, pear-shaped stringed instrument that came very close to mimicking the...
Oman, boasting a history of centuries, centuries of tradition being equal to centuries, is even today attempting to adopt extreme measures in preserving its...
The Kuwaiti society is flooded with a wave of cultural renaissance, and at the forefront are the artists, poets, and writers who make up Kuwait's new identity. New culture attempts to document old and new, remembering Kuwait's past while transforming society's malaise into numerous pieces of art.
Story is still a powerful tool of cultural heritage and preservation. One of the best-known of Kuwait's oral tradition characters is a man who has become stardom material through his performative re-reading of national myth and contemporary history. His stories, with emotive performances, take one back to far-off pasts of times long ago of days of old of generations ago, namely those concerning...
There was widespread renaissance of the Saudi heritage and crafts because there was greater focus on the preservation and continuation of the Kingdom's heritage as per the vision of the Kingdom Vision 2030. The recent craft boom is more favorable for it to become...
Lebanese cultural heritage is founded on Lebanon's artisanship, and Lebanon's multicultural traditional ancient heritage is duplicated around Lebanon. Professional artisans across the country hold traditions from thousand years ago and generation-to-generation technology is kept intact to still stay connected to the past.
The nation has handicraft heritage in the shape of woodcarvings, ceramics, weaving, and jewelery. Tripoli is among the villages engaged with long working hours within factories by artisans who create very fine-quality ceramics...
Omani national identity has been very well described in the language of fashion, and tradition costume increasingly becomes contemporary fashion. Edge-to-the-moment contemporary fashion cultures...
Lebanese literature from Lebanon is exquisite rich perspective of survival, history, and culture in Levant. Question-begotten sense without limits invites Lebanese writers to create identity, war, and being human in whatever literary piece...
By Nour El-Din Mahmoud ~
Deeper in the world's oldest city, a renaissance is unfolding. Cairo, forever notorious for its ancient buildings and mosques, is becoming fertile ground for innovative art, underground music, fashion,...
A revolution in Saudi art has swept across Saudi Arabia, restoring traditional country art and regarding new creativity trends to emerge. The revolution is more vital nationally in the struggle to retain historic...
By Mariam Al Mansoori ~
Amidst the very midst of the rest of the world's speed, revolution, and advancement, no nation ever walked as perfect a line of keeping pace with their heritage and...
There has been a cultural renaissance across Palestinian societies whereby creatives and artists use writing, music, drama, and visual arts to reclaim and safeguard...
By Samira Al-Hamdi ~
Beneath Sana'a streets, and fallen mudbrick minarets, a revolution but concealed—no gun, no politics, beat and memory. There are qanbūs ripened, traditional dialect poetry lyricism, Arabic music heritage maintained. In...
Hala Al-Hamawi, Nottingham Trent University
The Middle East region, home to both oil-rich economies and fragile, conflict-affected states, remains among the most underfunded in the...
Andrew White, King's College London - It is not much of an exaggeration to say that Spotify saved the music industry. Global revenue for...
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