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Those who ‘also paint’: Taring Padi Against the Division of Artistic Labour
Marco Baravalle
Petro-Gothic: Haunting and Desire in the Carbon Age
Nat Muller
The House Did Not Remember Me: An Interview with Sulaf
Nada Atieg
Divine Exhalation: On Breath and the Shadhili Hadra
Lutfi Othman
From the peaks above to the palms below
Ayman Zedani
Hearing Is Believing: Reflections on the Sonic and the Spiritual
Yasmin Alrabiei
Occupying the Imaginary
Hadi Afif
Paradise Way: Watching Sirāt After Gaza
Youssef Rakha
Agential Pasts and Futures: An Interview with Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind
Nat Muller
Listening Back: Sound and Memory in Syria’s Cassette Era
Yamen Mekdad & Omar Malas
Borders as Algorithms as Borders
Matt Mahmoudi
Photographic Memory II
Jalal Toufic
Living in the Past
Samar Yazbek
The Politics of Sound and Urban Space in Joe Namy’s Cosmic Breath
Rim J. Irscheid
The Living Name
Yeser Berro
A Subtle Body for a Time Immemorial
Reza Negarestani
Hrair Sarkissian’s Atlas of Restored Images
Taous Dahmani
In the Face of the Dragon (Part III)
Nadim Choufi
Luminous Absence: On Hrair Sarkissian’s Stolen Past
Uzma Z. Rizvi
Hezb-e Bād: The Party of the Wind and the Coalition of the Vengeful
Maryam Tafakory
In the Face of the Dragon (Part II)
Nadim Choufi
Can I Hug All These Flowers? A Conversation between Ali Eyal and Ala Younis
Ali Eyal & Ala Younis
Like Footwork in a Boxing Match: Refusal as Movement in Cultural Labour
Samira Makki & Saba Innab
The Voice of Hind Rajab: Kaouther Ben Hania in conversation with Selma Dabbagh
Selma Dabbagh
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Anthony Downey
Ghost in the Vitrine
Marina Ashioti
In the Face of the Dragon (Part I)
Nadim Choufi
Singing with Severed Tongues: On Nadim Choufi's In the Face of the Dragon
Maru Pabón
Art against Apartheid’s Two-Year Tour in Japan – Past Disquiet Redux (Part III)
Rasha Salti & Kristine Khouri
Provenance and Action: From Studio and Street to Exhibition and Museum – Past Disquiet Redux (Part II)
Rasha Salti & Kristine Khouri
Deconstructing the Foundational Fallacy of ‘Judeo-Christian Civilisation’
Sophie Bessis
Fighting Intolerance by Cultivating Fascism
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Connected Museums – Past Disquiet Redux (Part I)
Rasha Salti & Kristine Khouri
Collapse Informatics, Small Files, and the Light Infrastructure of the Future
Laura U. Marks
In the Name of Love: For Bano Bibi and Ehsan Ullah
Warsan Shire
Same, same but different
Skye Arundhati Thomas
The Image of Text
Al Hassan Elwan (aka POSTPOSTPOST)
Consensus Aesthetics: The Political Economy of Agreement in Contemporary Art
Cem A.
Let Our Brains Rot But Let Them Be Ours
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
Electrifying Sounds: An Interview with Isam Elias
Imed Alibi
Hellishes on Earth
Ashkan Sepahvand
Pakistani, Black, BAME, Other: Notes on the Politics of Naming
Qalandar Bux Memon
28.0000° N, 45.0000° W (TIDAL ARCHIVE)
Ocean Baulcombe-Toppin
In the Cut
Naeem Mohaiemen
A Wider Lens on Information Operations
Jack Poulson
That Which We Cannot Not Want: On International Law and People’s Justice
Shela Sheikh
Bano Bibi: We Remember You
Fatimah Asghar
Thinking with Water in Palestine
Elisa Adami
Opacity as Resistance: Reversing the Image Politics of Empire
Heba Y. Amin
An Open Letter and Welcome to Ibraaz
Kamel Lazaar
The House
Hanan Habashi
Cosmopoetics of Globality
Patrick Chamoiseau
Algorithmic Visions: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Warfare
Anthony Downey
Restless
Caleb Azumah Nelson
On Building an Institution
Y7
The Oud as Memory, Bridge, and Future: An Interview with Naseer Shamma
Imed Alibi
Forista: Tasting Notes
Becky Lyon