Ibn Bint Jbeil
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Arts
- Occupation: Teacher
- Location: Detroit : United States
About Me
:: Ibn Bint Jbeil is Arabic for.... (Click for the whole story) :: i was (only OFFICIALLY) born in the village of Bint Jbeil in the south of Lebanon :: i am thankful that Allah provides me with daily sustenance, mercy, inspiration and learning :: i have 3 children, whose innocence is my compass :: i teach and make art, and i make other things, for instance things out of words :: life is wraught with a bunch of abstract notions that i am trying to comprehend :: i also make trouble, 99.99% of the time inadvertantly ::
Interests
- memory
- longing
- spiritual discourse
- human mythology
- anthro- archeo- psycho- sociology
- oil painting
- drawing
- graphic art
- sculpture & ceramics
- art history
- south lebanon
- palestine freedom
- archaic 3amili culture
- downtrodden peoples
- urban rust
- knotted rope
- broken glass
- rotted fruit
- dank wood
- tired grey floating days where the difference between earth and sky is obscured by a vague grey nonmanifest horizon
Favorite Movies
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- A Wedding in Galilea
- three Jewels
- The Sound of Music
- The Wall
- Divine Intervention
- The World According to Garp
- The Good the Bad and the Ugly
- The Wizard of Oz
- Planet of the Apes (original 1968 version) and the 4 sequels
- Planet of the Arabs
- Brother from Another Planet
- Raging Bull
- Brother Sun Sister Moon
- The Remains of the Day
- Cinema Paradiso
- Easy Rider
- Taxi Driver
- Lost in Yonkers
- Ghirbeh (a play by Mohammad alMaghut)
- Dogville
- Al-Ard
- Raise the Red Lantern
- the Hairdresser's Husband
- Awakenings
- Lion of the Desert
- the Color of Paradise
- the Godfather I&II
- Wildflowers: Women of South Lebanon
- Doctor Zhivago
- Apocalypse Now
- Brazil
- Cuba Libre
- The Fisher King
- Like Twenty Impossibles
- Paradise Now & the new Palestinian cinema
- Daughters of the Dust
- Being There
- The Cow
- Night On Earth
- Kandahar
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- The Breakfast Club (and all Mollie 80's flicks)
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- Blue / White / Red
- Notre Musique
- and many others too numerous to name..
Favorite Music
- fairuz
- um khalthum
- marcel khalife
- ziyad rahbani
- sheikh imam
- miles davis and his generation of heavy jazzites
- ten thousand maniacs (w/ merchant)
- everything but the girl (their 80's stuff)
- bob marley
- hamza eldin
- the doors
- led zepplin
- bob dylan
- the police
- ccr
- etcetera etcetera etcetera.
Favorite Books
- The Quran
- The Heights of Machu Picchu by Pablo Neruda
- Morning Poems by Robert Bly
- A Farewell to Arms & For Whom The Bell Tolls by E Hemmingway
- Mahmoud's Darwish's first anthology (pre 1982) & pieces since 1999
- Cities of Salt by AbdelRahman Munif
- Diwan Muhammad al-Maghut
- the Authobiography of Malcolm X
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldus Huxley
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- poetry by Rumi
- by Federico García Lorca
- by Emily Dickinson
- and more and more and more...
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| Du'aa Kumayl | |
|---|---|
| Bint Jbeil Architecture | poshlemon |
| Ibn Bint Jbeil | |
| Ibn Bint Jbeil's Daily Photo | transient |
