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...At first glance the former Qatari prime minister Sheikh Hamad Bin-Jaber al-Thani and the singer Barbra Streisand appear to have little in common....
...Khalid Al-Yahya, programmes director for the museum, describes the tour as a “people-to-people initiative, with young Saudi creatives sharing their stories across the US”. The exchange cuts both ways....
...Edge of Arabia director Stephen Stapleton is quick to point out the relevance of this medium to practitioners in the least liberal countries in the region: “One young Saudi artist told me that ‘the internet...
...They are Israa Al Bayaa, Nicholas Aldridge, Arjun Menon, Alexios Papaconstantinou, Bramen Singanayagam, Martin Stapleton, Louis Villa, Atallah Esptephan and Rahil Kuchiera....
...Its director Stephen Stapleton is enthusiastic about the contemporary work coming from Saudi artists, work that “has an energy to it, not weighed down by the history of art, and is easily understood, therefore...
...Another piece, by Manal Al-Dowayan, confronts the problem of women not being allowed to say their own name in public....
...Ms Stapleton noted that there was little popular support in Afghanistan for extremist activity....
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