Category: Cultural Resistance
-
The Beirut Call Hardcover is now on Amazon
Proud to announce that “The Beirut Call: Harnessing Creativity for Change” anthology hardcover is now available on Amazon, and as an ebook on Kobo.com, Lehmanns.de, Chapters.indigo.ca, and Fnac.com. Proceeds will help Nabad further support artists, small creative enterprises, and arts NGOs in Lebanon.
-
The Beirut Call Anthology is now Available on Lehmanns.de, Chapters.Indigo.ca and Fnac.com
“The Beirut Call: Harnessing Creativity for Change”: Get your digital copy now!
-
Aesthetica Magazine Editorial about Nabad: Art and Empowerment
Today’s Aesthetica Magazine (York, UK) editorial is about our Nabad program by Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts & Culture and its projects in Lebanon, including The Beirut Call anthology and the not-for-profit platform arleb.org which supports local artists and creative enterprises.
-
“The Beirut Call: Harnessing Creativity for Change” Virtual Book Launch
We had an amazing virtual book launch event via Zoom organized by Elyssar Press and sponsored by the Shuffle Collective (California – USA), and which full video will soon be shared.
-
The Beirut Call Anthology ebook is now available on KOBO.COM
“The Beirut Call” anthology electronic version is now available on Kobo.com! “The Beirut Call” presents diverse perceptions and expressions that speak to Lebanese in their homeland and in diaspora, but it also transcends the borders of Lebanon as contributors address glocal issues-war, peace, memory, history, identity, creativity, cultural resistance, resilience, artistic activism, human rights, feminism, […]
-
The Beirut Call Anthology: Virtual Book Launch on May 9th 2021
“THE BEIRUT CALL…Harnessing Creativity for Change!” is a new anthology in collaboration with @daralkalimauniversity, its program @nabad.art and @elyssarpress, a publishing press in Redlands, CA.Support our Lebanese artists and arts organizations!Follow us @elyssarpress, on facebook @thebeirutcall or go to elyssarpress/the-beirut-call/ for more information.VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH is set for Sunday May 9, 2021 at 10am PST […]
-
Crawling Out from Under the Rubble: On Becoming Iconoclasts
There are already engaged Lebanese academics and artists, iconoclasts, and they are making a difference, but more need to engage beyond their classrooms, books and academic journals, and ‘ateliers’, to be in the act of researching people, themselves, the dynamics of oppression and the politics of social interactions and injustices, to become aware of the people’s often unknowingly complicit in the process of oppression, to create knowledge in and through meaningful participation and action with others, to bring people together and contribute to finding reasons of solidarity, to transform boundaries into spaces where lives and pedagogies are constructed together in ways that work for social justice and lead to powerful possibilities, and where dialogic and open-ended praxis based on more collaborative and caring relationships is promoted.
-
Upcoming Anthology “The Beirut Call. Harnessing Creativity for Change”
Dear colleagues and friends, kindly spread the word about our upcoming anthology. “The Beirut Call. Harnessing Creativity for Change” presents diverse perceptions and expressions that speak to Lebanese in their homeland and in the diaspora, and it also transcends the borders of Lebanon as contributors address glocal issues—war, peace, memory, history, identity, creativity, cultural resistance, […]
-
Art for Social Change: Nabad, the Nonprofit behind The Beirut Call
The Beirut Call, coming out this April 2021, is one of Nabad’s latest projects in Lebanon. This anthology offers a collection of first-hand accounts by artists, scholars, poets, and activists exploring the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion on August 4th of 2020. Over 20 voices have come together for this publication and proceeds from […]
Dr. Pamela Chrabieh 