Reviving Arab Arts & Culture Amidst Crisis | Rima Mismar
We talked to Rima Mismar, Executive Director of the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (AFAC) about AFAC's work to support the Lebanese Culture & Arts sector this year through the Lebanon Solidarity Fund, as well as the extraordinary challenges that many artists and members of the cultural sector are facing after the disastrous explosion of August 4th in Beirut Port.
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture - AFAC was founded in 2007 through the initiative of Arab cultural activists as an independent foundation to support individual artists, writers, researchers, intellectuals, as well as organizations from the Arab region working in the field of arts and culture. Since its launch, AFAC’s programs have steadily expanded to cover cinema, photography, visual and performing arts, creative and critical writings, music, documentary film, in addition to funding research, training and cultural events. Based in Beirut, AFAC works with artists and organizations all over the Arab region and the rest of the world.
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