indromya, estrobia, full fobia....

عيد ميلادي كان امبارح
كنت مبسوطة ان في ناس كتير أوي قالولي كل سنة و انتي طيبة
مع انهم مايعرفوش ان رجلي مكسورة

Signs

Amman August 2007
The last night there..

One of the most amazing things that I’ve seen in Amman this year when I went, is street signs.

And I don’t mean by that the traffic thing or the guidance issue as well, I mean the beautiful colorful signs that mostly assemble artistic installations in the way it is chapped and “installed”.

Like that huge one in the crossroad after we went out the famous books @ café.

More over, streets are like ramps beatified with lights and the Jordanian flag in different sizes like the one in the rainbow street on the façade of the small primary school or the sings that made me hear what is written on.

I may say that streets of Amman are speaking colorfully.

أنا مستجهل أوي

أبحث نوما في شقة مع عربيين

أريد أن أشارك شقة مع عربيين للدراس اللغة العربية العامية. أنا طالب فرنسي ودرست اللغة العربية الفسحة في أسبانياء في المدينة غزنطة. مند سنتين. الآن أنا متادرب في إدارة أزدنية: أعمل للمجلس الأعلى للسكان. إلى 05/09/2007 . إسمي "ليو"

مستجهل

I've found this AD among many in a very famous cafe in Amman, 2007

named: books @ cafe

http://www.booksatcafe.com/

Dahlia Refaat

WEST EL BALAD

مش عارفة إيه علاقة وسط البلد بلأداءات التمثيلية من الناس

الحركات، المصطلحات، اللبس، الشكل

و كأن وسط البلد دي عاصمة كل من أراد أن يُرى بعين تري زيفه

قد أكون ظالمة لبعض من إضطروا للتواجد داخل هذه العاصمة بدافع إن أصدقاءهم من السكان الأصليين لوسط البلد..

بس هذا المصطلح موجود فقط في المدن و حيث يرعى المثقفون المدعيون أغنامهم، أو يرعون هم كأغنام.

إحنا عمرنا ماسمعنا عن وسط بلد في سيوة ولا في رشيد ولا في الأقصر... و إذا إستخدم هذا المصطلح فهو إشارة إلى مركز المواصلات أو أوسع ميدان في البلد أو الأسواق أو كمان مكان الشركات والسفارات و الحاجات اللي مفيش منها إلا مكان واحد بس..

ما علينا جايز أنا اللي عندي المشكلة...

MY WORK (collage)

- black & white photograph, oil pastel, ink, paper and water color.
- paper(different type), stamps and oil pastel.
- paper, oil pastel, acrylic and aluminum.

Stenope

I have started the experiment during an exhibition that i was coordinating 2005 in bibliotheca alexandrina. and i really liked to try it my self although it's not easy to find the materials to use in my home country because people stoped using it and get to work more with the digital cameras, which are good and quick. But the stenope or the pinhole cameras are helping more in geting a pre manipulated image. distortion and light details are more artistic in my opinion....,it's not a usual way to make photography, a primitive very primitive camera.. i actually used a can to make it.
I went to several cities in Egypt to collect picture.
Siwa, Rosita, Cairo and Alexandria. always loved photography, but i'm so glad that i started my research by stenope. Although I didn't get the perfect result at the beginning.

Bodies, Bread and MUD

أجساد و خبز و طين
by: Adham Hafez

Besheer. JCC. Emad

Yesterday I was in a party in the Jesuit Cultural Center here in Alexandria..
In was…… what can I say ….amazing? Astonishing?
I don't know!
The theater was shaking cos of the music and the clapping and the human happiness that I haven’t notice long ago, cos of my being stuck in the stupid work that I had before.
It was by Besheer and his band…
And for the first time in my life I was dancing like a crazy person all the time not caring with any comments that could been said by the people I know, I've always been so shy to do that in front of the people I know. Yes I did that several times in several occasions, but not like yesterday……
You my want to feel free with the way you plane all the time but to feel free the way you dream is happening rarely…
My loving partner was amazing as usual, what can I say about'm more than being beyond wishes!

when you look under your feet

You feel that life is very short….
your shirt is very tight and you can't breath…
you can't walk wearing this shoes….
The weather is dusty, you can't breath….(again for another reason!)
This man errrrrrrrrrr, awful, let'm pass through…
This woman is wearing like a bitch…..
But you never ever see the deep deep tunnel that you’ve digged between your eyebrows….
Turn the mirror….