Alexandria, Egypt
Session 7: July 7 – Sept 10, 2009

Alaa Khaled, a poet and essayist, and Salwa Rashad, a visual artist, are from Alexandria, Egypt. They have collaborated extensively on a wide range of projects, contemplating the city through Rashad’s images and Khaled’s prose. Since 1999, they have published the literary magazine Amkenah, dedicated to the “poetry of place.” With Amkenah, they explore the relationship between people and place, and attempt to find new possibilities for investigating the problematic existence of the urban individual.

• UFI Project: A Walk in the City
  Aug 24, 2009

  Alaa Khaled and Salwa Rashad have been interested in how various immigrant populations, and particularly Arab immigrants, have shaped and been shaped by Los Angeles’s cultural, economic, architectural and environmental landscape. Khaled and Rashad framed [...]