never heard about Said Dokin before, lovely stuff, especially that second piece, so shiny. Thanks for posting FT!

Looks like they charged some people in connection with his death (ages from 14-20). 
www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2014/09/three_charged_in_fatal_detroit.html

Charles Hossein Zenderoudi : www.zenderoudi.com/english/bio.html

A few artists from the Levant

Diana Al-Hadid


Ahmed Abdellatif


Randa Maddah


Christine Kettaneh

A few things from Egypt...

The documentary 'Art War', which chronicles Egypt's January 25 Revolution through the graffiti which appeared on the streets, can be streamed or downloaded for free until Sunday via the War Art website here. 


Art War features the work of artists like Ganzeer, who I've posted about earlier on in this thread.  The only down side is that I don't remember it featuring the fantastic Aya Tarek, but fortuitously she's currently painting a big wall in El Gouna on the Red Sea with Ammar Abo Bakr.  Here's a progress shot from her Instagram and I'll update this thread when I find a photo of the finished wall:


There's an interesting looking exhibition in Cairo at the moment entitled ‘Without Barriers’.  The exhibition features the work of graffiti writers like Mohammed and Ali Khaled and the work centres on love, relationships, and sex in contemporary Egypt.  The piece below is by Lamis Solyman and there are more photos over on Egyptian Streets:


EDIT: Here's the finished wall by Aya Tarek and Ammar Abo Bakr from her Instagram:

Here's some photos of eL Seed's exhibition via his, the gallery's, Myne and Canvas Mag's Instagrams.  The work uses the words of Nizar Qabbani's poetry and isn't at all what I was expecting but I think it looks fantastic. 


And on the subject of calligraphic sculpture, I really like the contrast of the smooth flow of the Arabic script and the rough concrete in Yazan's street piece:

Ganzeer, who came to prominence painting on the streets during the January 25 Revolution, has his first solo show at Leila Heller Gallery in New York next week.  Ganzeer's work is overtly political and the exhibition, which is entitled 'All American', will feature reinterpretations of contemporary urban symbols on canvases, screenprints and canvas.  The exhibition runs from 16 January to 21 February 2015.


The exhibition is curated by Shiva Balaghi who is a lecturer in art history and Middle Eastern history at Brown University.  You can find a whole host of lectures and talks by her online and I would highly recommend watching some of them:

I won't "like" that until I know what it says....

Anyone?

It says "give me a like asshole"
sounds nicer in arabic

I'm reliably informed by Mrs Feralthings that one of the characters is saying 'This is my wall' and the other is saying 'no this is mine'.  It's by the Egyptian street artist Keizer and there's more on his Facebook page here but a lot of his pieces are just copies of other artists work or ideas.

l'Atlas and Morran Ben Lahcen are undertaking a joint residency at Villa des Arts in Casablanca running from 26 March to 26 April 2015.  The residency will include an exhibition, site specific installations, lectures and also urban interventions at Moulay Al Hassan Square and the Villa des Arts in Rabat.


Also, here's a few photos I came across of the Parisian studio which l'Atlas shares with Tanc; incidentally, in all the pictures of their studio that I've seen it has been this immaculately tidy!

Sorry

Apart from Cryptik, can anyone recommend any Indian themed artwork/artists?