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The "Beirut Art Center"

Experimental Art in an Industrial Zone

The new "Beirut Art Center" sees itself as an independent art space with an ambitious programme for bringing contemporary art forms to a wider public. Charlotte Bank reports from Beirut
Oriental Music in the West

A Creative Musical Laboratory at the Heart of Germany

The Morgenland Festival Osnabrück is setting new standards in the encounter between the West and the East. This year's focus was the music of the Uyghurs, the Muslim minority in China. By Stefan Buchen
Iranian Theatre

The Dead Cannot Be Censored

Roberto Ciulli has been organising exchanges between Iranian and German theatre companies for the past ten years. During the most recent visit by a group from Tehran to the "Theater an der Ruhr" in Mülheim the more oblique, indirect criticism was accompanied for the first time by open critical dissent. Peter Phillip reports
Iraqi Theatre

The Arab Answer to 'Godot'

An Iraqi-German cooperative project has staged the drama "Waiting for Rain" after Beckett's "Waiting for Godot". It shows Iraqi society in search of itself. Leonie Kircher spoke with the project's initiators
"Death and the Maiden" in Iraq

From Pinochet to Saddam Hussein

The themes of torture, guilt and vengeance under Chile's military junta are at the heart of Ariel Dorfman's play "Death and the Maiden". Now a Berlin theatre group has been performing the play, premiered in 1991, in Iraq. Antje C. Hobucher und Eduardo Fernández-Tenllado reflect on the experience
Lahore World Performing Arts Festival

At the Banks of Annemarie Schimmel Bay

The Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop has been organising Lahore's International Theater and Dance Festival since 1992. Inspired by his stay in Germany 75 years ago, Peer had then introduced modern drama to the subcontinent. Elisabeth Einecke-Klövekorn reports
International Festival of Sacred Music in Fes

From Mystery to Revelation

The Festival of Sacred Music has been held in the city of Fes since 1994. This year for the first time, the programme of Islamic, Jewish and Christian music has been widened to include Buddhist, Hindu and animist songs. Detlef Langer was there
Mohammad-Reza Shajarian

The Master Rebel

Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, one of the most highly acclaimed interpreters of classical Iranian music, is defying the regime by forbidding the state-run radio station from playing his songs. Details from Stefan Buchen
Protest Songs in Iran

Tired of the Kiss of the Whip

Since the controversial presidential election last June, Iranian musicians of all genres have created a multi-layered song repertoire. Their songs are an attempt to come to terms with the bloody suppression of the opposition and demands for political freedom in Iran. By Jan Engelhardt
Cairo Jazz Festival

Soundscapes without Borders

Cultural life in Egypt had been at a virtual standstill since the revolution. The Cairo Jazz Festival was the opportunity to celebrate both music and the revolution. Amira El Ahl was there