Todd Reisz
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Todd Reisz
@ToddReisz
Architect. Author, Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai https://t.co/VJ8ewLimie… Also tweeting @AlManakh.
Amsterdam Katılım Haziran 2010
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I wish more people with voice and reach would do more work before jumping to such praise.
Dr Andreas Krieg@andreas_krieg
I wish more politicians had a moral compass and backbone to put their job on the line for a rules- and values-based international order Gaza will be a moral point of reference for a generation of politicians and leaders
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@m7mdkurd I understand, since it is unapologetic. At least one Dutch newspaper did review it, but says a lot others didn't.
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Perfect Victims hit multiple bestseller lists. Plenty of people put it in front of editors. Yet not one mainstream outlet has reviewed it. I’ll take it as a compliment—seems they don’t want people reading it.
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I had the pleasure of sitting down with @ToddReisz to chat about his fantastic new book Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai (Stanford UP, 2021). @NewBooksNetwork @stanfordpress
Listen here megaphone.link/NBNK8292321538
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Coolest dishwasher of all time?
Hiten Samtani 🗞️@hitsamty
Staying w/ a friend who's an ébéniste (cabinet-maker) high up in the hills of Marseille, and he's built a home full of delights
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Lovely time last night, 5 short films - we started in Mexico and ended in Iran + night-time
view of Dubai Creek as a backdrop.
Followed by a discussion w/ @ToddReisz & audience about how we navigate in our environments.
Todd and I should start a new show called Between Two Lamps.
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Hind Mezaina@hindmezaina
Lovely time last night, 5 short films - we started in Mexico and ended in Iran + night-time view of Dubai Creek as a backdrop. Followed by a discussion w/ @ToddReisz & audience about how we navigate in our environments. Todd and I should start a new show called Between Two Lamps.
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Happening tonight, Sat 20 Jan, 7pm at @JameelArtsCtr – film programme by big sis @hindmezaina for @ToddReisz’s ‘Night School’ programme. Details ⬇️
Hind Mezaina@hindmezaina
Tonight at 7pm: Night School Film Night: Traversing Landscapes, 5 short films + discussion between @ToddReisz and me about the films and interacting with our surroundings, what’s visible/hidden/erased in landscapes & more. jameelartscentre.org/whats-on/trave… PS Note about arriving early ⬇️
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Night School’s theme this year is beautifully found is various, surprising ways in five short films. @hindmezaina invited me to be part of her careful, thoughtful selection process. Please join us @JameelArtsCtr next Saturday, 20 Jan.
Hind Mezaina@hindmezaina
I’ve put together a new short film program, Traversing Landscapes, on Jan 20 @JameelArtsCtr, part of Night School 2024: There You Are led by @toddreisz who will join me for a discussion after the screening. Free to attend. Film line up and details here: jameelartscentre.org/whats-on/trave…
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Some thoughts on the closure of one of my favorite neighborhoods in the city, the Hindu temple + alley in Bur Dubai. I’ll miss my walks in the narrow alleys, the sounds & smells, the sense of community ⬇️
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“Gaza could only experience relief, not progress. Humanitarianism [is]primary way that intl donors interact w Palestinians in Gaza—in effect, a device the Israeli military uses to manage an undesirable pop, w no vision of anything but more management.”nybooks.com/online/2023/12…
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"I’m talking about a mistake we often make when thinking about history. We fail to think of historical events as developing over time. This has been an obsession for my entire writing life."
m. gessen@mashagessen
I got a prize and gave a talk. It didn't go as planned, and this wasn't the talk I'd prepared. But I'm glad I got to say this. zeit.de/kultur/2023-12…
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This is an ongoing post, updated periodically, in which the Editor of the Quick Thoughts Series on Jadaliyya provides commentary on the war on Gaza.
"Quick Thoughts: Ongoing Post on the War on Gaza" by Mouin Rabbani
buff.ly/3RiuWwg
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"Palestinians and their cats...are so compelling to many of us because they challenge liberal understandings of humanity and expose them to be colonial ways of defining the world, personhood, and imaginings of freedom." @nativeinformant allegralaboratory.net/the-cats-of-ga…
Photo:Hatem Ali/AP
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John Berger recited Letter from Gaza at the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature in 2008 and it’s incredibly moving:
ontologoff 🛜@ontologoff
This part of Ghassan Kanafani’s 1956 short story, Letter from Gaza, has wrecked me.
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In-person only (in Dubai).
This third season's theme is *There You Are*. How much can we know about a place simply by taking a good look around?
Public programming for the larger public to be announced next month.
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Night School 2024, this January: 3 wks of discussion-intensive seminars on urbanism, history, and their intersection in the city of Dubai. @JameelArtsCtr is now accepting applications. Free & open to everybody
For more information & application: jameelartscentre.org/whats-on/night…
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