Art, Revolution & People’s Voices – Bahia Shehab and Seif El Rashidi

Artist, educator and activist Bahia Shehab discusses the role of artists during times of political change, and reflects on what it meant to take part in the Arab Spring. Shehab discusses her newly-published book ‘You Can Crush The Flowers: A Memoir of the Egyptian Revolution,’ and her work to help develop a new generation of creative minds through arts education.

This podcast is part of Asia House Arts in Isolation Series and Converging Paths, an initiative organised in partnership with the Barakat Trust and the support of the Altajir Trust and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and promotes the arts and cultures of the Islamic World.

 

 

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