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I n  the last 500 years media has had a great change, everything started with the printing press back in the 15th century and by the 17th century mass printing spread all over Europe which turned it upside-down.  Only 200 years ago then the innovation of a way of communication was developed, or as better known, the conversational media, first the telegraph which was used for a text-based conversations, best known the Morse telegraph which was used back in the 17th century during the civil war in USA by Abraham Lincoln to communicate with his troops in the North and following the telephone that gave real-time conversations happen.  Few years later, which is about 150 years ago was the time for the recorded media which started first with photos, following recorded sound and concluding with films.  But what gave the world a great change was the radio and television thanks to the new invention of electromagnetic spectrum that sent images and sound through the ...

On Sunday an Iranian oil tanker sank after a blaze in the waters of Shanghai, releasing 136,000 tons of condensate oil that could possibly damage all the flora and fauna, moreover, it will be difficult to detect and clean up.   The oil has long lasting effect and could seriously compromise fishing.   Another concern, reported by a researcher Paul Johnston regarding the Sanchi,  is that it is possible that the vessel may have lost fuel although it’s likely that the fuel tanks remained intact since they were close to the engine room till the explosion a week later.    The company, of Iranian origin, are blaming the Chinese for not using foam instead of water to stop the fire.   The 32 members of the crew weren’t helped either and unfortunately none of them made it safely, consequently, only three bodies were found.   This scene recalls “Before the Flood” a documentary by Leonardo DiCaprio of 2016, dealing with the clima...

What is the first thing you would have done if you had ever received such massage?  Well we can ask to the Hawaiians as they experienced it after that a false alarm which was sent wrongly.   Such message arrived on all their devices late yesterday.  It is recorded that panic and hysteria reigned for 30 minutes on all the Hawaiian islands.   Undoubtedly, many people just had the fear of not saying goodbye to the loved ones, others just tried to seek shelter for themselves and the little ones but the fact that being on such beautiful islands some others just thought that staring at the beauty of what surrounded them was not that bad either.  Luckily the nightmare only lasted thirty-eight minutes as immediately after that the emergency system worker realized he soon corrected it.   State officials apologized immediately and also the US president Donald trump also called the question.   

Reading the speech which the Iranian Artist Shirin Neshat gave on Ted Talks one could feel the reality Iranians live in especially women knowing that Iran is still under a regime after that their democracy had been stolen to the country.   Shirin practices her artistic visual art in exile as she chose not to go back to Iran, in her birth country for 20 years, leaving behind all her loved ones for not living in censorship, harassment, arrests, tortures or in the worst cases even execution.   She found position of being the voice of all the people in Iran after that their democracy had been stolen by the British and American Governments.   People depend on artists because as she says, culture is beyond communication.   As we all know after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran everything had changed and thanks to her film from the novel by Shahrnush Parsipur, ‘Women without Men’, she demonstrates the  westerners how Iran was before tha...

Magda Sayeg pursued her own goal using her own hands, tools that we sometimes under value, tools that were given to us as equal.  In this technological world surrounded by billboards and advertisements, there’s something interesting to witness if you look around, if you manage not to be isolated in your own device, well you can admire fire extinguishers, stop poles or even tree trunks wrapped in knitting.  In this article Magda, a textile artist, explains how by chance came through a course of her life that has never imagined.   She started with a door handle  which she called Alpha Piece and then with a stop sign in front of her house and when she realized that people were stopping and staring or even taking pictures with it, well, with this reaction she understood that that was what she wanted to do and the more she did the stronger the reaction was.    Well when the environment is the playground and anyone who passes can see ...

Out of all the artists’ stories one could ever read, this is the touchiest  one of all. It’s all about switching the perception about people which in this case its about the ‘Zareebeen’ which in English is ‘garbage people’, contrary in his article he calls ‘ ahsen nas’, the best people.  El Seed , an Egyptian artist headed all the way to Manshijat Naser , which is a garbage collector area of Egypt, to experience his biggest human experience.  Manshijat Naser is a Christian Coptic Community and for living they breed pigs, which they actually feed with the garbage they collect and of course  it’s where they sort all the garbage they receive in this area, but one unlucky day the regime under Hosni Mumbarak decided to kill all their pigs using H1N1 virus.  El Seed headed to the top of Muqattan mountain to reach Simon Monastery which is the pride of the community as he recalls in his article, and this is where he wanted his masterpiece to be se...