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“We-Feeling”: The sociality of scents!

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What is social or even political about scent? This Scent Culture Comment & Review reveals some of the implications of a casual interview.

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Posted on 30/09/201813/10/2018 Scent Culture Comment & ReviewSmellshot

Breathing in different sensory worlds

“Americans and Arabs live in different sensory worlds much of the time and do not use the same senses even to establish most of the distances maintained during conversations.” – EDWARD HALL

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Posted on 24/10/201712/10/2018 DICTUM

Al Jazeera Documentary about Oud

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AJ+ Arabic has produced a brief segment about oud: “The price per kilogram for one of the finest kinds of oud incense is $9 million! als does it smell?”

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Posted on 28/03/201602/10/2018 Scent Culture News

Scents of Exile

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Scents of Exile is an olfactory art project curated by Ashraf Osman in partnership with Syndicate and Givaudan. It takes as its point of departure an evocative text about memory, identity and nostalgia associated with scents of cities and places no longer accessible, from In the Presence of Absence by renowned Arab poet Mahmoud Darwish.

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Posted on 19/12/201502/10/2018 Cultural production

The Smell of Beirut

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It’s seems the Arab Spring has finally reached Lebanon, and its trigger and slogan have been decidedly olfactory: #YouStink

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Posted on 23/08/201502/10/2018 Scent Culture News
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