{"id":20129,"date":"2023-02-13T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=20129"},"modified":"2023-03-20T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T18:28:05","slug":"alserkal-avenue-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2023\/02\/13\/alserkal-avenue-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"alserkal avenue in dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>i found my groove in dubai today. it\u2019s called alserkal avenue. located in al quoz, halfway between old and new dubai, this contemporary art hub was created in 2008 by housing art spaces, galleries, internet cafes, and artist studios in existing warehouses and factory buildings. incidentally, i started with an exhibition that purports to lift the voices of kashmiri women thru photography and testimonies. it was awful. from the get-go. more about that later.<br \/><br \/>i want to share what i loved first: \u2018for you mother\u2019 by palestinian artist rula halawani. based on conversations with her mother about palestine and her words, \u201ceven when we die and leave this world, our spirits remain, floating in the skies of our country,\u201d halawani has produced these beautifully haunted and haunting, large-scale photomontages, a \u201cmarriage between archival images of palestinian families before the 1948 mass diaspora and palestinian landscapes captured thru her lens.\u201d<br \/>halawani is also interested in examining how palestinian landscapes have changed \u2014 the people and natural environment that disappeared and are still disappearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/329025483_1396804984416801_203864614896903126_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/329025483_1396804984416801_203864614896903126_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/329025483_1396804984416801_203864614896903126_n.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/329025483_1396804984416801_203864614896903126_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i found my groove in dubai today. it\u2019s called alserkal avenue. located in al quoz, halfway between old and new dubai, this contemporary art hub was created in 2008 by housing art spaces, galleries, internet cafes, and artist studios in existing warehouses and factory buildings. incidentally, i started with an exhibition that purports to lift &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2023\/02\/13\/alserkal-avenue-in-dubai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">alserkal avenue in dubai<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,15,14,16,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20131,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129\/revisions\/20131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}