Saleem Haddad thinks through the impact of the Arab Spring on art and society:
Creative expression of resistance is not just something for reflection: for many, creativity was sometimes the only way to resist the Arab regimes. In its early stages, public protest in Syria needed to be creative to survive: a garbage bag full of ping pong balls, each with anti-regime slogans carefully written on it in permanent marker, were left to roll down a Damascene hilltop and into the city. This is just one example of many…
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