Wael Shaweky: Crusades and Other Stories

posted on: Apr 6, 2015

The Egyptian artist Wael Shawky (born 1971) spent four years filming “Cabaret Crusades,” a film trilogy that retells Amin Maalouf’s 1983 book “The Crusades Through Arab Eyes” using hundreds of puppets. The trilogy will screen alongside another movie series he made, “Al Araba Al Madfuna,” based on parables by the Egyptian novelist Mohamed Mustagab. A number of sketches and puppets that Mr. Shawky used to film his crusades trilogy are also on view.

Source: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com