Deadline Nov 22
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The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture 'Why Culture?' Video Competition
Submissions are now being accepted for the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) 'Why Culture?' Video Competition. The competition is open to the general public as well as professional filmmakers, animators and video artists. Videos must be two minutes in length and, if language is included, must be partially or entirely in Arabic.
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The Vilcek Foundation is now accepting submissions for the third annualdARTboard Call for Entries in Digital Art. Submitted works must be by foreign-born artists living permanently in the United States using computer-based and new media technologies.
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Deadline Oct 21
98editions is now accepting submissions for its fifth publication. The publication gathers writing from different authors, bringing together language practices from a variety of geographies (personal and national) to reveal idiosyncrasy, and to cultivate a heterogeneous readership. Unpublished poetry, prose, and creative non-fiction are welcome from the Middle East and beyond.
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Deadline Nov 30
The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is accepting submissions from all fields and disciplines in which artistic research may be relevant, including areas that may not usually be conceived of as ‘artistic,’ and welcomes submissions from practitioners with or without academic affiliations.
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Deadline Ongoing
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Darat al Funun Dissertation Fellowship for the Study of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World
Darat al Funun-The Khalid Shoman Foundation is pleased to announce the 2014-15 Dissertation Fellowship for the Study of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World. The fellowship provides financial support of up to ten thousand US dollars to Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences. One to three fellowships will be granted. Duration can range from 4-12 months of residency at Darat al Funun in Amman, Jordan.
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The Swedish Institute is now accepting applications for the She Entrepreneurs Programme. The programme is open to women social entrepreneurs who are citizens of Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, West Bank-Gaza, Yemen and Sweden, and who have the ambition to develop a project aimed at positive social change through entrepreneurial principles.
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Deadline Nov 1
Cda-Projects Artistic Research and Production Grant is offering a 10,000 Euro grant to support the production of an artistic research project. Authors (includes artists, curators, writers, thinkers, etc…) of any nationality, regardless of age, can propose projects to be carried out individually or collectively.
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Deadline Nov 30
The Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) has established a fund in support of the annual award of Grabar Grants and Fellowships. These competitive awards are intended to encourage and further the professional development of graduate students (Ph.D. candidates) and post-doctoral scholars in all areas of Islamic art, architecture and archaeology and are open to all nationalities. Applicants must be HIAA members.
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Deadline Dec 15
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The Arabic Digital Book Expression Program
The International Media Network Services for Human Rights(IMNS4HR) and Townhouse Gallery have joined efforts to offerThe Arabic Digital Book Expression Program. Townhouse will host a range of five one-day workshops for a select group of cultural practitioners, graphic designers and/or activists, one of which will be conducted by IMNS experts, in addition to four technical support meetings with experts from Netservex.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston hosts a ten-week course series entitled"The Middle East: A Mosaic of History, Art, and Culture," exploring the recent cultural history of urban centers of the Middle East inspired by the two exhibitions "She Who Tells a Story," and "Sacred Pages" on view now.
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Following the publication of the book Tradiut de l'arabe, Moussem, the nomadic art centre, organizes in collaboration with its European partners and deBuren the colloquium 'Do your Arab thing.' The event proposes to reflect on the classical Western canon from the perspective of artists with a link to the Arab World living and working in Europe.
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Date Oct 14
The Kevorkian Center at New York University will host 'Writing at the Borders of Violence,' a literary dialogue between acclaimed Arabic novelists Hoda Barakat and Sinan Antoon. The discussion will be held in Arabic, with translation.
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Date Oct 24
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Beirut Art Center is hiring an Operations Manager
Beirut Art Center (BAC) seeks an Operations Manager to coordinate the production of the Center's exhibitions and events. He or she will be responsible for planning, organizing, supervising, and following up with all operations within the Center's facility.
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Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde seeks a Communications and Sales Assistant. This individual will prepare and send press releases, manage the gallery's website and swebsite and social media presence, and responding to clients inquiries. Experience with InDesign and Adobe required.
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The Middle East Insitute and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University invite applications for an appointment as Arcapita Visiting Professor in Modern Arab Studiesfor a one-semester position for the Fall 2013 or Spring 2014 semesters.
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Museum of the Moving Image seeks an Assistant for Graphic Design and Production (AGDP). This individual will manage the application of the Museum's identity package where appropriate, assuring that standards are met in all digital and printed publications, and will design and manage the production of a broad range of material for print and online publication.
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Arts and Culture in Transformative Times: Expanding the Philanthropic Dialogue on the Middle East and North Africa
ArteEast and the Ford Foundation, with co-hosts Open Society Foundation, British Council and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation will host a two-day conference, Arts and Culture in Transformative Times: Expanding the Philanthropic Dialogue on the Middle East and North Africa. The timely and important conversation between members of the MENA arts sector and the cultural and philanthropic communities in the U.S. will be held in New York this month.
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Beirut Art Center and Irtijal present ‘The Dream Machine 2: Beirut Festival of Audio-Visual Arts.’ This five-day festival attempts to trace the technical, artistic, and theoretical attributes and operations mobilized by the term “audiovisual” itself, assessing the ways in which the juncture in audio-visual has been theorized, undone, and reformulated.
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Dates Oct 25-30
Ibraaz is pleased to release the full details of Future Imperfect, a symposium organized in collaboration with Tate Modern. The symposium will bring together an international line-up of artists, writers and cultural practitioners to consider ways in which artistic practices can help inform and shape collective futures.
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Date Nov 9
Art21 announces a new documentary film series, Artist to Artist. The innovative series of short-format documentaries highlights leading contemporary visual artists in conversation with their peers, discussing the inspirations and ideas that drive their processes. The first three films provide access to behind-the-scenes conversations between artists at the Sharjah Biennial, Venice Biennale, and the Istanbul Biennial.
