Dears friends, readers, art/music lovers and fellow journalists,
Greetings from Paris. I hope this message finds you all well, as we enter the best part of this year: Summer.
So far, 2022 hasn't been as politically hopeful as I wished, but many of us keep on nourishing our quest for meaning, connections and beauty... and I'm grateful to all of you.
As a migratory bird, I also needed a bit of movement, after a few odd years. Over the past & coming weeks, I have been and will work in between France, Belgium and England. I'm also aiming to visit again Milan and Berlin...
While in Europe, I'd be delighted to meet up again with those of you whom I've not been able to see often enough.
In the meantime, let me share my most recent work.
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Refugee Food Festival
First, from Marseille, a little 5-min documentary about people helping refugees to integrate thanks to their talent for cooking: C'est en français - pour la DW.
Pour écouter:
Algeria through the arts:
I reviewed a couple of exhibitions celebrating the 60 years of independence of the country.
Read here about Zineb Sedira: https://themarkaz.org/zineb-
And here about Algerian history through different artists and the journey of Emir Abd El kader: https://themarkaz.org/
Invited as a guest on an American podcast series about similar issues, centred on fighting racism and neocolonial bias... We discussed issues around Algeria's struggle for equality and France's history of colonialism:
Discriminology Podcast
Music from various grounds,
between the West & the East
between the West & the East
Through my column for TMR:
A personal history of Iranian music
Tamino returns
Remembering Fairouz
Arts on the Road
New Hew Locke's installation at
Tate Britain, 'The Procession'
Review and interview for Art UK - Read here:
Interview with Nigerian filmmaker & founder of online African art marketplace, ArtDey:
Chioma Onyenwe
Last event in Bristol:
Artist Shiraz Bayjoo, in conversation with writer, journalist and Arnolfini Writer in Residence, Melissa Chemam, in a special evening celebrating the release of Shiraz’s beautiful illustrated edition of 'Treasure Island', by Robert Louis Stevenson, published by Four Corners Books.
Book here:
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I wish you all a wonderful summer.
Let's hope to meet more often, on the road.
With my best wishes,
melissa
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Melissa Chemam
Writer, Journalist, Audio Producer
(BBC, DW, The Markaz Review, Art UK...)
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