A Riot on Idols

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This collection is made of many variations revolving around one concept, which is an ironic look at – or representation of – the state of various types of media and art in the Arab world today. Generally, the Arab world has seen a rising of a certain alternative scene or sub-culture, whose identity is vastly different from that which is constantly imposed everywhere through mainstream media. Those artists who work in this alternative culture, those rising talents, are vastly overlooked and silenced because of their lack of resources and support. This collection, therefore, with its irony and almost caricaturist representation of the state of mainstream media and art in the Arab world, is a sort of Dadaist protest against the idols of that exact tradition, with its representatives, Fairuz, Umm Kulthum, Abdel Halim Hafez, among others.

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"