The City Speaks – Emerging Artists from Beirut and Cairo in Conversation with the Urban Environment

ArteEast Invites You To

The City Speaks: Emerging Artists from Beirut and Cairo in
Conversation with the Urban Environment
A discussion with Dalia Baassiri, Lara Tabet, and Bassem Yousri
Moderated by Rhea Karam

Monday, July 18, 2016
6:30pm (free and open to the public)
Residency Unlimited (RU)
360 Court Street (enter the Church through the main entrance)
Brooklyn, NY 11231

RSVP to Sihem Mellah at smellah@arteeast.org, or call 646-725-8771.

Join us as we welcome ArteEast Artists-in-Residence, Lebanese artists Dalia Baassiri (RU artist), Lara Tabet, and Egyptian artist Bassem Yousri for a conversation on working within the rapidly shifting social and political climates of the vibrant cities they call home. The conversation will be moderated by Lebanese photographer Rhea Karam, whose work ‘Breathing Walls’ documents the relationship between the inhabitants of Cairo and Beirut and the urban spaces in which voices of the ‘Arab Spring’ were expressed, suppressed, and negotiated.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Reservations are required. 

Generously co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Lebanon in New York.