TY - BOOK AU - Lopardo,Roberto AU - Hamidi,Nadia AU - Al-Majed,Rahab AU - Mehrez,Amira AU - Darwish,Maisam AU - Koudmani,Rafia AU - Al-Maskery,Al-Moutasim AU - Jalali,Maryam AU - Bardai,Somayeh AU - Karubi,Arezou AU - Urooj,Altamash AU - Al-Sharif,Raji AU - Cordier,Alex AU - Al-Turki,Sami AU - Ayyash,Mona AU - Al-Hussain,Abdulrahman AU - Bardawil,Sam TI - Basically human: fifteen young artists from the Middle East AV - TR 113.5 .L67 2007 PY - 2007///] CY - Dubai PB - [publisher not identified] KW - Photography KW - Middle East KW - Art, Middle Eastern KW - 21st century KW - Exhibitions KW - fast KW - Exhibition catalogs N1 - Published in conjunction with the photo exhibition "Basically Human"; Nadia Hamidi -- Rahab Al-Majed -- Amira Mehrez -- Maisam Darwish -- Rafia Koudmani -- Al-Moutasim Al-Maskery -- Maryam Jalali -- Somayeh Bardai -- Arezou Karubi -- Altamash Urooj -- Raji Al-Sharif -- Alex Cordier -- Sami Al-Turki -- Mona Ayyash -- Abdulrahman Al-Hussain N2 - "It seems that the infatuation with the image runs deeper than expected, especially in places where, stereotypically, one would think it is strictly shunned. The evidence to this comes in the form of 'Basically Human', a thought-provoking photo exhibition by fifteen young artists from Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, Iran, and the Gulf countries... these young men and women, students and graduates of the American University in Dubai, bring to the fore the profound issues and questions which comprise their daily search for a reinvented identity that attempts to escape the labels inflicted on it by both East and West"--Introduction ER -