Araf definition
Araf word means the middle of heaven and hell at the Koran. EMU Center for Cyprus Studies (DAÜ- KAM) Art Coordinator and Exhibition Curator Zehra Şonya made a statement about the reason of the name choice of the exhibition. Şonya stated that “Limbo” represents the metaphorical sense, which is open for improvement, meaning to be caught in the middle, the state of conspicuousness, to be in the seesaw, being jammed, uncertainty, inertia, desperation, staying out of the system, alterity, etc. Şonya stated, “Exhibition aims to
Araf means purgatory or limbo in Turkish. A state of waiting between heaven and hell. I translated “araf ” as “somewhere in between”. While