Culture in Spite of the Pandemic and Lockdowns
2020 was filled with challenges faced by cultural organizations and cultural workers; the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world, which resulted in imposing restrictions on freedom of movement and closure of public venues. This challenge represented an opportunity for the Arab Culture Association (ACA) to think about how to deal with cultural work during crises, and the attempt to appropriate cultural work to novel conditions if any pandemic is to occur.