In just a few weeks, we will list this year's accomplishments and compare them with last year's New Year's resolutions. Ironically, the best feeling is when they don't line up, and you realize how grateful you are to have missed opportunities and chances, and to have grown into someone new who would never have these particular goals again.
This week's events struggle with identity, where what they want and what they work towards meet in a gray area of TV static.
Every Thursday, L’Orient Today, in partnership with The MYM Agenda, guides you through events across the Middle East that are actually worth your time.
What to do this weekend in Beirut:
Painter Ribal Molaeb is showcasing this Thursday at Saleh Barakat Gallery in Clemenceau his latest exhibition, "Becoming Light."
Molaeb is obsessed with the view of the sky he gets from his home in the heights of Baysour (Aley district). The entire exhibition is time-lapses of the sun rising, setting, lingering as clouds come and go.
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This weekend, at Janine Rubeiz Gallery in Raouche, artist Julie Bou Farah is framing the fever dreams you usually get after a weird dinner. In "iCloud," Bou Farah reconstructs everyday objects, animals and faces to create a parallel universe where stories morph and reiterate in a time loop.
"iCloud invites viewers to experience memory differently, revealing layers of what slips away and what quietly remains, through tactile, visceral forms," she explains.
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What to do this weekend in Jeddah:
This Thursday, catch the first day of the Red Sea International Film Festival's fifth edition, held in the UNESCO site al-Balad, in Jeddah.
Showing movies from all over the region, the festival hits home with its selections from Lebanon and Palestine exploring war, loss and fear, but also celebrating love, hope and personal discovery.
Tunisian director Kawther Ben Hania’s "The Voice of Hind Rajab," a harrowing portrayal of Hind Rajab’s final hours before she was killed by Israeli forces at just six years old, will also be showing.
What to do this weekend in Cairo:
Azad Art Gallery in Zamalek is showcasing "Earth & Sky" by painter Shaaban al-Husseiny. In paintings reminiscent of children's books, Husseiny tries to suspend the relationship between the material and immaterial.
In an attempt to strip the metaphor bare, he draws our conflict between reality and struggle versus daydreams and freedom in rhinoceroses and colorful cars.
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What to do this weekend in Amman:
"Modern identity" is complicated. In her latest exhibition, "Undefined," showing at Dar al-Anda Art Gallery, multimedia artist Ghadeer Saeed tries, through collages, to literally piece together her experience in a timeline that makes sense to her.
She finds, through her retellings, that no experience is personal without being political, and no experience is philosophical without being emotional.
“I stand between what I see and what I believe to be real,” she explains.
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