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Three Tunisian Women Artists
Introduction
Michèle Cohen Hadria interviews Nicène Kossentini, Mouna Karray and Moufida Fedhila three women artists living and working in Tunisia today. The interviews discuss the work of these artists since the revolution and feature a discussion of artistic creation against the political backdrop of contemporary Tunisia. The interviews featured are accompanied by photographs of the artists' works.
About Michèle Cohen Hadria
Born in Tunisia in 1950, Michèle Cohen Hadria is an independent art critic, living in Paris. She studied art in Roma (Italia), then experimental film at Paris Sorbonne. She contributed to various catalogues for artists and to various art journals in France and abroad such as: ArtPress, Jeune Cinéma (Paris), n.paradoxa, Third Text (London), Tema Celeste (Milano/Italy), ETC, Ciel Variable (Montréal/Canada), Camera Austria (Graz/Austria). She dedicated herself to examining Arab world artists' works since 1998 and organized, together with scholar Nicole Brenez, a series of screenings around New Arab experimental films at La Cinémathèque Française, Paris (2003). Currently, she focuses on postcolonial issues in general and postcolonial gender studies in particular.
