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Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Walid Siti in conversation with Nat Muller

Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

Amy Charlesworth

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ayşe Erkmen in conversation with Basak Senova

Trevor Paglen: Aesthetics

'The following considerations on performance as an artistic medium in the region of North Africa and Middle East refer to more general problems that relate to the art form's status as an institutionalized aesthetic practice...'

Strategic though it may be, the binary of 'South' and 'North' is no less reductive than the stale binaries of yore: of 'East' and 'West', communist and capitalist, aesthetics and politics, the list goes on.

Haleh Redjaian at Arratia Beer

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Saloua Raouda Choucair, Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at Tate Modern

Omar Kholeif

Precarious Images, the Aesthetics of Conflict, and the Future of an Anachronism

'The young conservatives embrace the fundamental experience of aesthetic modernity – the disclosure of a de-centered subjectivity, freed from all constraints of rational cognition and purposiveness, from all imperatives of labour and utility – and in this way break out of the modern world. They transpose the spontaneous power of...

Edited by Anthony Downey & Lina Lazaar (Ibraaz Publishing, 2011)

A tool-guide by Temporary. Art. Platform. (T.A.P.) with Nayla Geagea

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah

O Whale, Don't Swallow Our Moon: Ramallah

Pattern Recognition: Ramallah

The Jerusalem Show VIII 'Before and After Origins': Jerusalem

This Sea is Mine: Amman

Biographies

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Responses

Foreword: Anthony Downey

A roundtable discussion

Ismaïl Bahri in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Christine Tohme in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nada Sehnaoui in conversation with Laura Allsop

Driss Ouadahi in conversation with Rachida Triki

Tom Bogaert in conversation with Anthony Downey

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Chapter 1: Intensities

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jasmina Metwaly in conversation with Angela Harutyunyan

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Samah Hijawi: Paradise Series

Soundscapes: Taking Apart the Arab City by Dr. Alexandra MacGilp

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Dream City in Tunis

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lidia Al-Qattan in conversation with Monira Al Qadiri

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Magdi Mostafa in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Rasha Salti in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Meriem Bennani in conversation with Myriam Ben Salah

Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation with Sarah Abu Abdallah

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

UBIK in conversation with Isabella Ellaheh Hughes

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Taysir Batniji in conversation with Silke Schmickl

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Matthias Lilienthal in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Caveh Zahedi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

Mounira al Solh in conversation with Nat Muller

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lawrence Abu Hamdan in conversation with Anthony Downey

Seth Ayyaz in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Farah Saleh in conversation with Marianna Liosi

Maya Zbib in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Timo Nasseri in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Anthony Downey

Mohanad Yaqubi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Eric Van Hove in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Sumesh Sharma in conversation with Amanprit Sandhu

Anthony Downey and Beatrix Ruf in conversation with Slavs and Tatars

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Jonas Staal in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

November Paynter and Didem Pekün in conversation with Basak Senova

Köken Ergun in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

Mona Marzouk in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Rana Hamadeh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Georgia Kotretsos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Rifat Chadirji and Balkis Sharara in conversation with Amin Alsaden

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

Nora Razian, Nataša Petrešin Bachelez, and Angela Harutyunyan in conversation, with a contribution from Natasha Gasparian

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

Hamza Halloubi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Monira Al Qadiri: The Saudi New Wave | Digital Landscapes and Future Institutions

Leila Al-Shami: Emerging from ‘The Kingdom of Silence’ | Beyond Institutions in Revolutionary Syria

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Nour K Sacranie

Chkoun Ahna at the National Museum of Carthage, Tunis, 2012

Ibraaz

Fawz Kabra

Ibraaz

1967 in Art and Its Histories, June 1-2, 2012 American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Coline Milliard

Ibraaz

Rachida Triki

The Cairo Seminar in Alexandria, dOCUMENTA (13)

Ibraaz

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Notes from a roundtable discussion on the state of the arts in Egypt

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

The role of the archive in critical and culturally located art histories

Ibraaz

The second meeting of Maghreb des Arts

Ibraaz

Erriadh is the Home of the ‘Street’

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Tom Snow

Online exhibition catalogue

Ibraaz

Gregory Sholette at Home Workspace Program

A Report from the AUC

Işıl Eğrikavuk's The Art of Disagreement

The Art for Tomorrow Conference 2016 in Doha

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler: Social Imagination

Shumon Basar: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Todd Reisz: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

John Akomfrah: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

Tania El Khoury

Wafaa Bilal

Hiwa K.

Nancy Atakan

APEAL's 'Museum in the Making' and Temporary. Art. Platform. present: The 2016 Ras Masqa Artists' Residency

Sama Alshaibi

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Trace Environments: Sovereignty, toxicity and the littoral

Contour Biennale 8 / DAI Roaming Assembly #12

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

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Ala Younis

Reema Salha Fadda

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Yazan Ashqar

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun

Negative Ecstasy at Dirimart, Istanbul

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Hassan Khan at Beirut Art Center

Hamid Dabashi

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Reflections on Reflections

The Sketches of Mahmoud Al Rifai at FADA 317

Etel Adnan at Serpentine Galleries

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Rayyane Tabet at Museo Marino Marini

The Artist as Awakener at AUB

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

The 37th EVA International

APEAL's 'Museum in the Making' and Temporary. Art. Platform. present: The 2016 Ras Masqa Artists' Residency

On Assumption and Authority

Forests, Freaks and Performativity

Organic Growth and the Rise of Visual Arts Organizations in the UAE

Barrak Alzaid

What are the urgent questions affecting cultural production in Turkey? I am writing from the perspective of Turkey, rather than the perspective of the Middle East and North Africa in general...

Of course, I do not wish to be misunderstood as arguing for nativism or closure. But the specific history of the region matters deeply, as factual evidence, but even more so in terms of identifying resources that can be transformed and activated in new ways today.

Anthony Downey

On Walking and Crawling

Tehran’s Self-portrait

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Six Short Stories on Arabic Voice Acting

Green Art Gallery

Ahmad Makia

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

The Performance of Death in a Post-9/11 World

An Alternative Genealogy of Musique Concrète

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

The 13th Biennale de Lyon

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

Maraya Art Centre

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Interventions as Performative Gestures For Political Engagement in Jordan

Practice, Performance, Politics

'To avoid misunderstanding, I write from the perspective of Turkey, because I can't really speak for North Africa nor for the Middle East in general...'

Franco Berardi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Monira Al Qadiri

Five Stages of an Artist Residency

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

On the Work of Basma Alsharif

Portrait of a Salafi en abyme in the Cyber World

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

The group of paintings is inspired by 'momentary images' or more accurately frozen moments taken from the contemporary cityscape of Egypt, as well as from personal records; old photographs found in family albums.

A Provocation to the Question

An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf

A Recourse to the Past

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

A Yemeni Art History

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi

Burak Delier at Iniva

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

Or, Severing History From the Person

"Neither identification with an institution nor disengagement from an institution guarantees fluid, sensitive attitudes and openmindedness."

'By producing an idea of the future, art transgresses official history and produces its own reality.'

Reflections on Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program, 2013-14

Reflections on Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program, 2013-14

Slavs and Tatars at The Third Line

Jananne Al-Ani, Excavations, at the Hayward Gallery Project Space

Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS

Mirene Arsanios

Haig Aivazian’s multi-piece installation FUGERE at Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg

Almagul Menlibayeva

Rosana Palazyan

Ariel Hassan

Mohamed Fariji

Monira Al Qadiri

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

A project by Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

A Story of an Exhibition

Raed Yassin

Lasse Lau

Naira Antoun

A project by Fayçal Baghriche

A Project by Anahita Razmi

Two Projects by Sinisa Vlajkovic

Seher Shah's Recent Drawings

Isak Berbic

A Mother's Tongue, On Ahmad Ghossein's film My Father is Still a Communist

Cecilia Andersson

The Society of False Witnesses

Dena Al-Adeeb

Meriem Bennani

Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi

Seth Ayyaz

Through art practices, particularly in this region, the artist might slip into this muddy area, which is mostly based on fetishes and collective political memory and which somehow stands on the most influential component of media archive. It is not necessarily only that which is visible and legible, but more...

Working with archives is a relatively new development, only recently have artists and institutions had access to archives. In the Middle East in general, the idea of the archive and of history is very vague. Even the idea of archiving, of having an institution that holds an archive, is new.

I envision the liberation of an archive (from attachment to a person, state, or region) through its transfiguration into a database. This emancipation requires dematerialization and displacement.

...one of the main problems with modernity in the Arab World is the lack of credibility, criticality and scrutiny in understanding, presenting, and evaluating its nature and objects.

On Shuruq Harb's The Keeper

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha and the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh’s 'A photographic conversation from Burj al-Shamali Camp'

An I for an Eye and Death of a Cameraman

The 13th Istanbul Biennial

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

Contemporary Artistic Practice in Iran at a Revolutionary Moment

Meem Gallery, Dubai

Gezi Resistance, Public Space and the Counter-monumental

Iraq and Palestine at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing

Ibraaz Platform 005 Editorial

What if Rani al Rajji and Michel De Certeau met in Beirut?

Aid and the Politics of Art in Processes of Contemporary Cultural Production

Nadia Mounajjed

An Exhibition between Cairo and London

Firstly, and most immediately, I object to the characterisation of the context in which this question is situated. There is, of course, a marketplace for what we call cultural goods, including artworks, but there's no reason to situate all artworks immediately in an economy. Things that are made solely for...

Demonstrations by Palestinian villagers against Israeli colonisation has been described by non-local media sources as 'theatrics' and 'spectacle.' Such categorisation positions Palestinian acts of protest in the realm of 'acting'- a visual 'show' for the cameras, complete with homemade props, a soundtrack of chants performed to the rhythm of Israeli...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the word 'demand' seems to be the key word of the poll. In relation to a 'globalised cultural economy' it refers to the core term of economics that is used to rationalise the development of prices. Talking about 'demands of news media, journalism, cultural...

Artistic Practices, Collective Action and Civil Society in Tunisia

A New Communal Model

Jens Maier-Rothe

The Impossibilities of Production in New Media

Tarek Khoury

Artistic Practices, Civil Society, and Secular Determination in Tunisia Today

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

Artists have for some time been using new media to investigate and question their mainstream socio-political environments. In Arab countries, the revolutions that took place are a direct expression of this process's shift from the art community to the mass, from the artist to the public. It was a mutation...

New media's role as an agent for social change in the MENA region has been somewhat sensationalised by mainstream media in referring to recent incidents of unrest as 'Facebook' or 'Twitter revolutions'. Whether used for the purpose of social exchange or as part of an artistic practice, real-time communication and...

The question implies a view on artistic practice informed by a liberal framework of reception and interpretation: artistic practices are expected to politely negotiate within and with the larger sphere of culture; they are expected to expose, reveal, unmask, reform and finally find a place within various institutional configurations. The...

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

Anthony Downey

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

Cultural institutions in Turkey are divided into those run by the state, local governments and private sectors; each have different culture policies and no significant collaborative policies. Contemporary art productions and practices are based in Istanbul and are dependent on private sector investments, rather than official funds. Compared to the...

Mirene Arsanios

Reflections from a book on South Sinai

Initiated by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation in 2011, Ibraaz is the leading critical forum on visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East. We publish an annual online platform – consisting of essays, interviews, artists' projects, and platform responses – that focuses on research questions conceived through a network...

Walking in the Darkness of a Promised Light

Rachida Triki

Samah Hijawi Documents for a Narrative of Art History of Jordan, 2010-ongoing M ulti-media project Video excerpt, 1'40" Courtesy of the artist This ongoing research project is concerned with different aspects that have influenced the development of visual art practices in Jordan over the last 60 years. It uses multi-media...

When did the major museums of the West start taking contemporary Middle Eastern art into consideration? After 2006, with the first successful sale of Middle Eastern contemporary art by Christie's in Dubai, and the announcement shortly afterwards that Abu Dhabi was going to invest billions in museum creation. Of course,...

Mark Westmoreland

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