Tag: Journalism

Essay by DoppelHouse Press
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The Siege of Homs, Syria 2013

By Hadi Abdullah
هادي العبدالله

Tarad and I were covering the battles for the media in those days. The revolutionaries started trying to rid the area of the regime’s suffocating grip by taking control first of the checkpoints that separated different areas of the city, then of those that kept the city shut off from its countryside, which required an enormous military effort. Despite the magnitude of the task, the revolutionaries did it. Then it was the villages’ turn. … The civilians started preparing for the big day, while revolutionaries planned the liberation. They headed north like one big human river, “God be on our side” was their weapon.

Art by DoppelHouse Press
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Hunting for Art on the Ring Road

BY AHMED NAJI -أحمد ناجى
The shop walls were covered with wooden planks, on those planks, drawings of people in a state of motion. They were crossing the street or leaving a building, but here they were stuck in a void.

That was the first exhibition by “Amr El Kafrawy” for me to attend. We met for a short interview. He told me about his work approach: sitting in some “internet café” overlooking Talaat Harb square in the Downtown area, getting out a small camera while watching people, and secretly taking photographs of them. Afterward, he drew on those photographs to put them back in a state of motion. He turned them into black shadows crossing the empty wooden planks covering the “Artellewa” gallery walls.