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Translation Is Not a Service. It Is the Work.
A bilingual season means two productions, not one production and a subtitle.
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Who Gets to Represent Us in Venice?
A collective is the right answer to a question we have never asked out loud.
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Adliya's Galleries Are Full. Its Artists Are Leaving.
An arts district that only an audience can afford is a shopping district.
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A Cinema Is a Public Square With the Lights Off
We have malls. What we lost was somewhere to sit beside strangers.
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The Archive Is the Institution
Buildings get ribbons. Archives get forgotten, and then they get lost.
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A Bilingual Stage Is a Statement, Whether or Not It Means To Be
Choosing which night is in Arabic is itself a piece of criticism.
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We Teach the Oud Like a Relic
It is a living instrument. Stop putting it behind glass and start paying its teachers.
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Public Art You Do Not Argue About Is Decoration
Six safe commissions on a corniche is a landscaping budget.
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A Film Fund Is Not a Film Industry
Ten grants make ten films. They do not make a crew that can still work next year.
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We Should Fund the Oud Like We Fund the Circuit
One gets a sovereign budget line. The other gets a heritage photograph.
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