Middle East/North Africa

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  Op-Ed

  Syria: This Is Not a “Civil War”

  October 9, 2012 - 

  Syrian artist Jaber Al Azmeh speaks to the dangers of using the label “civil war” instead of “revolution” when discussing the ongoing crisis in Syria.  More

  By Jaber Al Azmeh

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  Audio Dispatch

  I Ran into Iran:
  To Burn or Not to Burn a Flag

  September 28, 2012 - 

  I ran into Iran talks with artists Dread Scott and Nima Esmailpour about flag burning in the United States and Iran. Who burns a U.S. flag? Why do they do it? Has the context in which the flag is burned changed over the years?  More

  By Benjamin Lindquist, Kioomars Marzban and Katayoun Vaziri

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  Video

  Egypt: The Right to Health Care

  September 24, 2012 - 

  Independent Cairo-based media collective Mosireen examines the pressing issue of access to health care in Egypt, highlighting two public hospitals—one squalid, the other unstaffed—that lack the basic resources necessary to serve the sick and injured.  More

  By Mosireen

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  Video

  Egypt: The Right to Housing

  September 14, 2012 - 

  Independent media collective Mosireen exposes overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions in Cairo, while profiling neighborhoods that have turned to direct governance in response to bureaucratic negligence and forced evictions by military police.  More

  By Mosireen

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  Editor's Audio Dispatch

  Tunisia: One Year After the Revolution

  March 7, 2012 - 

  For this Creative Time Reports Audio Dispatch, Editor Marisa Mazria Katz visits Tunisia-based video artist and photographer Nicène Kossentini one year after the country’s uprising, also known as the Jasmine Revolution, against dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.  More

  By Marisa Mazria Katz and Nicène Kossentini