The Power of Culture

Lebanese video artist, curator and photographer Akram Zaatari is also an 'archive artist', since he claims that collecting is an art form. The old photographs he showes differ significantly from the images we normally see from the Middle East. Recently he was a guest at The Human Body Special, as part of  the Café Mediterranée programme in Amsterdam.

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Twenty-two well-known film makers and visual artists made short films on the theme of human rights. This film project marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube.

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Cultural entrepreneurship is rare in Mali, but it can be found. Young Alioune Ifra N'Dyae is brimming with plans. He already constructed a theatre and an editing studio, and now he wants to open a school.

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Fashion is not only clothing: it is identity, attitude and socio-cultural communication. IN-MOD has therefore been inviting Brazilian designers, entrepreneurs, journalists and scholars to discuss the role of fashion and design in rising creative economies during the São Paulo fashion weeks since 2007.

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"Our work focuses on the social rituals and religious ceremonies in Arabian society, especially the specific role that men play and that is expected of women", says Noura Murad of the Syrian Leish Troupe.

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It has been estimated 700 Salvadorans leave the country every day in search of work. The Solidarity Crafts-programme tries to stop that trend.

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How can a general history be distilled from the chaos of events? It's questions like these which the Lebanese artist poses himself and his audience during his perfomances.

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In Segou everybody can enjoy the festival, which has a cultural purpose as well as an economic one.

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