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Charlotte Bank

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Charlotte Bank is a free lance researcher, curator and writer with a wide range of interests. With a background in Near Eastern archaeology and art history, her main focus now is the reception of Islamic and Arab art and culture in Western high and popular culture, contemporary artistic and cultural practice in the Arab world, global visual culture as well as early Islamic visual art. The mechanisms of globalization, interculturalism and post-polonialism are an important part of all her projects.

She organizes talks, seminars and exhibitions and publishes regularly, both on- and off-line.

Among her recent and upcoming projects are:

Hijab Fashion: A fashion reportage with a twist

Signs: Talismanic designs in Islamic culture

Syria Inside Out: Syrian short films and videos, presented at OpenEyes Filmfest, Marburg, Germany, 25th july.

Taking Position: Screening event of new short films and videos from Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, City of Luxembourg, 21st October 2008

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    Fashionable scarves shop in Chaalan
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    New manteau fashion in souq al-manati
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    Anonymous Damascene chique
 
Contact information / hard facts
Frankfurt am Main
Germany
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www.zakharif.eu

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  • event: Casino de Luxembourg

    Taking Position

    New experimental short films and videos

    21 Oct 08 Charlotte Bank - Casino de Luxembourg, centre d'art contemporain, 21st October: Program curated and presented by Charlotte Bank. Featuring artists from...
  • event: OpenEyes Filmfest

    Syria Inside Out

    Syrian short films and videos at OpenEyes Filmfest, Marburg, Germany, 25th July 2008, Traumakino, G-Werk, Marburg. Program curated and presented by Charlotte Bank

    25 July 08 Charlotte Bank - Despite the relative seclusion of Syria in the past and the often heard critique of the Syrian art scene as backward minded and...