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A Note from the Editors: Issue 35
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A Journalist From Palestine
Narmeen Hamadeh’s work places deep importance on the Arab footprint, emphasizing her Palestinian heritage
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Stitches
Sarah Alagroobi's fine abstract art magnifies delicate intricacies through bright colors and patterns
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Primordial Soup
Two improvised audio pieces by Paris-based artist Godefroy Dronsart that explores noise as an aesthetic
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Downward Facing
Enter the studio: a yoga class devolves from tranquil to disturbing for the socially anxious
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Food for Thought
Emirati artist Badr Abbas's loud Cubist-style paintings point the fingers of satire against modern food culture
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Echoing
Specializing in album covers, concert flyers, and alternative merch, Ø Macioti's illustrations delve into punk and atmospheric journeys between music and noise
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Reconstitution of Being
Noura Al Ali's emotional 3D landscapes probe the Earth through multiple perspectives
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Desert
Audio artist LOVTRE's work has us floating through space, imagining the noise of planets mingled with the noise of humanity
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How to hold a ceasefire
Taylor Rossics explores violence within the mind and body in this poem
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You Give Me That Contact High
The UAE, like many countries, has grown increasingly entranced with hip-hop culture, streetwear, and their history. This cross-cultural interest manifests in the arrival of the "Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop" exhibition at Manarat al Saadiyat, reviewed here by EIC Vamika Sinha
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Psychedelic Rhapsody
Weaving from Jay-Z to Khruangbin, Aravind Kumar takes us through a "psychedelic" listening practice
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Noise Borne by the Body
Visually raucous digital collages that dig into gender and the psyche
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The Sounds of Mina Zayed, Slowly Fading
Gentrification is also an act of controlling noise. Larayb Abrar evokes the rhythms of a port on the brink of change
Art of Corruption
A poem aimed at the political orchestrations made and fired against Black bodies
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My Coffee
Drawing on the rhythmic flow of rap, this poem emerges from the incomparable buzz of a coffee cup
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censor
In a vibrant poem as small as a teacup, Daniel Clark explores censorship and the stamping out of noise
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Music from My Good Eye
Combining photographic languages, this body of work addresses the history of musicality and activism in Thero Makepe's family lineage between Botswana and apartheid South Africa
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Representation: Is It All Just Noise?
New in Style Odyssey, Ayah Rashid examines the fashion industry's shortcomings in advocating for increased diversity
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Color IV
Part of a larger experimental film documentary, Color IV turns a darkly nostalgic eye on the angst, violence, mundaneness, and loneliness of adolescence