Qualla: Djerbahood https://qualla.com/djerbahood en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/p/8/djerbahood-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Djerbahood https://qualla.com/djerbahood Djerbahood: Introduction https://qualla.com/djerbahood/ Photo credit Galerie Itinerrance, CC BY-SA 4.0. The giant letters spelling THE HOOD appeared first, installed by the artist Rodolphe Cintorino at the entrance to Erriadh, a village on the Tunisian island of Djerba also known as El Hara Sghira, meaning "the small neighborhood" in Arabic. The letters named the project before the organizers had settled on one. In June 2014, 150 street artists from 30 countries arrived in this ancient village, and by the time they left, they had consumed 4,500 cans of spray paint and created 250 murals across the walls of a community that had been struggling for attention since Tunisia's 2011 revolution.

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/p/8/djerbahood-wp/snp8-djerbahood-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Djerbahood: A Gallery Without Doors https://qualla.com/djerbahood/ Photo credit Talelbh, CC BY-SA 4.0. The project was the brainchild of Mehdi Ben Cheikh, founder and director of the Itinerrance gallery in Paris. He chose Erriadh for its traditional architecture, the white and blue-washed buildings common to Djerba, which offered both a sympathetic canvas and a visual contrast tha...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/p/8/djerbahood-wp/snp8-djerbahood-a-gallery-without-doors.mp3 0:06 2 full Djerbahood: Walls That Welcomed Strangers https://qualla.com/djerbahood/ Photo credit Rahma026, CC BY-SA 4.0. The human story of Djerbahood runs deeper than its visual spectacle. Ben Cheikh had to persuade the residents of Erriadh to offer their walls to the artists, a proposition that initially met resistance. Villagers who had lived their entire lives behind those walls were being aske...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/p/8/djerbahood-wp/snp8-djerbahood-walls-that-welcomed-strangers.mp3 0:06 3 full Djerbahood: The World Came Looking https://qualla.com/djerbahood/ Photo credit Rawen Ab, CC BY-SA 4.0. Media coverage was immediate and enormous. Hundreds of articles appeared in outlets from seventy countries within months of the project's completion: The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Liberation, The Huffington Post, La Repubblica, Vogue Italia, Al Jazeera, and BBC News...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/p/8/djerbahood-wp/snp8-djerbahood-the-world-came-looking.mp3 0:06 4 full Djerbahood: Art Against Amnesia https://qualla.com/djerbahood/ Photo credit Rani777- Baha-Eddine MKD, CC BY-SA 4.0. Djerbahood sits at the intersection of several larger stories. It is a story about street art's migration from urban rebellion to sanctioned cultural production. It is a story about post-revolutionary Tunisia searching for new identities and new economies. And it is a story about...

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