Rachida Lamri
Rachida Lamri is a writer, musician and an activist. Founder of the Cultural Organisation Culturama and a member of the Algeria Solidarity Campaign. She takes great interest in Arab and African Culture and civil society movements.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Friday, June 7, 2019 14:15 - 1 Comment
Film | An urgent, necessary homage: “Fanon: Yesterday, Today” by Hassane Mezine
“Fanon: Hier, Aujourd’hui,” a landmark documentary film by Hassane Mezine is a worthy homage and testament to Fanon's life and legacy, writes Rachida Lamri.
Arts & Culture, Exhibition, New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 6, 2017 17:51 - 0 Comments
Arts & Culture | Exhibition | Pop Art From North Africa (P21 Gallery)
Rachida Lamri reviews the ‘Pop Art From North Africa’ exhibition, currently running at the P21 gallery in London. Walking among the engagingly parodic displays feels like a stroll into the psyches not of individual artists but of collective identities and narratives, she writes.
Arts & Culture, Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, April 1, 2014 15:43 - 0 Comments
Arts & Culture | Interview | Drifa Mezenner: “I lived in the absence twice”
In her debut feature, “j’ai habité l’absence deux fois”, Algerian filmmaker Drifa Mezenner captures in words and images the emotional aftermath of separation and civil war. She talks to Ceasefire's Rachida M Lamri about the absence and emptiness reverberating through the lives of Algerian youth, a story told through her own experience and that of her family.
