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Decolonizing Architecture at Tate Modern

Timo Nasseri in conversation with Laura Allsop

Invisible Architecture in Rana ElNemr’s Streams of Synonyms

Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Driss Ouadahi in conversation with Rachida Triki

Diana Al-Hadid in Conversation with Fawz Kabra

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Mona Marzouk in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Rifat Chadirji and Balkis Sharara in conversation with Amin Alsaden

A Report on Future City

Todd Reisz: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Farah Al-Nakib: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

1972-1982 Spaceship Sheraton and the Making of Doha's Masterplans

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

To close Ibraaz Platform 010, we present new essays by Ibraaz Editor-in-Chief Anthony Downey, Ibraaz Senior Editor Stephanie Bailey, Ibraaz Contributing Editor Ala Younis, and Natasha Hoare; interviews with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled, Toleen Touq, Cevdet Erek, Hammad Nasar; projects by Shadi Habib Allah, Mahmoud Bakhshi, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi,...

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf

Object Lessons from Saadiyat Island and Gehry’s Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi

What Does It Mean to Be Building a Library in Iraq?

Azin Feizabadi

Monira Al Qadiri

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

Seher Shah's Recent Drawings

When Buildings Become Part of the Record

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

vs. The Ruler was made during the first year of the Arab uprising. It is comprised of two custom-made wooden 'electrocution' chairs (thrones) sitting in opposition to each other. The patriarchal male throne suggests the military and religion. Its counterpart is also suggestive of Islamic architecture, but is grounded by...

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

Yazid Anani

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Gaza

Pattern Recognition: Ramallah

A Series of Un-Curated Events: Ramallah

RE/viewing Jerusalem #2 – REturn: Jerusalem

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

Moments for Possibilities 'Air, Land and Sea': London

This Sea is Mine: Amman

Sea of Stories: Beirut

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

Partner institutions

Shirin Neshat

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Shezad Dawood in conversation with Sara Raza

Jack Persekian in conversation with Basak Senova

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Guy Mannes-Abbott in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Chapter 1: Intensities

Hassan Khan in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

Cynthia Zaven in conversation with Basak Senova

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Tamara Chalabi, Reem Shather-Kubba, and Jonathan Watkins in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 4: Measures

Chapter 3: Intervals

Chapter 2: Details

Magdi Mostafa: Wisdom Tower: from the series Sound Cells (Fridays)

Anas Al-Shaikh: My land, 2

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Rasha Salti in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Farah Al-Nakib in conversation with Todd Reisz

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Alya Sebti in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

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

Hiwa K in conversation with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Lawrence Abu Hamdan in conversation with Anthony Downey

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Özgür Uçkan and Vasif Kortun in conversation with Basak Senova

Walid Siti in conversation with Nat Muller

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Sheyma Buali in conversation with Turi Munthe and Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Jonas Staal in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

November Paynter and Didem Pekün in conversation with Basak Senova

Köken Ergun in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Tarek Atoui in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Burak Arıkan in conversation with Basak Senova

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

Shumon Basar, Ala Younis and Omar Berrada in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Ayşe Erkmen in conversation with Basak Senova

Carole Alfarah in conversation with María Gómez López

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Adelina von Fürstenberg in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Kim Beamish in conversation with Sam Bowker

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

Younes Bouadi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

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

Hussam al-Saray: in conversation with Ala Younis | A Cultural Encyclopaedia of Iraq

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Samiha Khalil

Coline Milliard

Sara Raza

The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Artist Residency Programme

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

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Erriadh is the Home of the ‘Street’

Edge of Arabia Launches Culturunners

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Reema Salha Fadda

Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

News JAOU Tunis 2015 008 / 18 May 2015 Jaou Tunis 2015. Copyright Kamel Lazaar Foundation. Visual Culture in an Age of Global Conflict The Kamel Lazaar Foundation is pleased to announce that it will stage a two-day conference at the National Museum of Bardo from 28–29 May, 2015. This...

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Online exhibition catalogue

Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

Ibraaz

On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’

The 2016 March Meeting

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At the Salzburger Kunstverein

The Public and Intimate Lives of Arabic Calligraphy

Sophia Al-Maria: On Automobiles

Shuruq Harb: On Agency

Ala Younis: On Curating

Guy Mannes-Abbott: On Drones

Murtaza Vali: On Domesticity

Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Listening

Burak Arikan & Başak Şenova: Network Data

Live

Hans Ulrich Obrist: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Shumon Basar: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Adam Szymczyk: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

Anas Al-Shaikh

Shirin Neshat

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

Short Wave/Long Wave: Vartan Avakian

Saving Face: Jalal Toufic

Notes Toward a Theory of Transformative Justice

Trace Environments: Sovereignty, toxicity and the littoral

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Cevdet Erek in conversation with Başak Şenova

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

Ala Younis

Reema Salha Fadda

Contour Biennale 8

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Meeting Points 8

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Reflections on Reflections

Edmund Clark at the Imperial War Museum, London

The Sketches of Mahmoud Al Rifai at FADA 317

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Rayyane Tabet at Museo Marino Marini

Lara Baladi

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

At Ab Anbar Gallery

The 37th EVA International

Forests, Freaks and Performativity

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

Barrak Alzaid

The varying political, cultural and economic circumstances of the participants of Art Dubai 2016, Design Days and the March Meeting, merit further consideration, as it is the differences among them that highlight the current constraints and opportunities for cultural production in the region.

To answer this question I propose an excerpt from a text in progress called 'Art and Garbage'. This piece is intended to look into the relation between urgent social problems – in this case the ongoing garbage crisis in Lebanon – and contemporary art.

Earshot by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Portikus, Frankfurt

Choreographing Spaces of Gesticulation

Ahmad Makia

An Alternative Genealogy of Musique Concrète

Adel Abidin presents Subway Scene (2015).

For Ibraaz Platform 009, Hassan Darsi presents a photo essay.

'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...'

'Do not pollute others' hearing with shameful sounds...'

Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible

Franco Berardi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

'Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity' at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

Natasha Ginwala

Lantian Xie at Grey Noise

Rana ElNemr at the American University in Cairo’s Sharjah Art Gallery

Anthony Downey

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.

Outside Looking In: Taking a Title and Running With It*

Building Institutions Through Practice

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Le Dessous des Ratures (Beneath the Crossings Out)

Can T-Wall Murals really Beautify the Fragmented Baghdad?

Global Art Forum 8 at Katara Art Center

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

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

'I don't believe culture is nowadays negotiating social activity, political engagement and critical practices. Culture is following the forces of the market.'

'You can't draw desire, you have to walk it.'

The Sharjah Art Foundation's 2014 March Meeting

Cevdet Erek at Spike Island, Bristol

Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS

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

Malak Helmy and Sophia Al Maria

(The Differences Between The Parts Are The Subject of The Composition)

Simohammed Fettaka & Basak Senova

Rosana Palazyan

Youmna Chlala

Leung Chi Wo

Notes from three spaces in which the law resounds

A project by Katia Kameli

A Story of an Exhibition

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

Basak Senova on Zeren Göktan's Counter (2013)

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

Two Projects by Sinisa Vlajkovic

A Project by Saba Innab

A Libyan Diary (Part III) - December 2011

A Libyan Diary (Part II) - November 2011

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Francesco Jodice

Cecilia Andersson

A project by Benji Boyadgian

Basma Alsharif

Amira Hanafi

Tahrir Archives

Dena Al-Adeeb

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

Written by Mayssa Fattouh

Seth Ayyaz

Helene Kazan

I felt the desire to examine the reverse process: what in art history and, more specifically, in the making of art, can contribute to the development of an archiving process?

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.

On Shuruq Harb's The Keeper

The Recordings of the Cosmopolitan

Alsi Çavuşoğlu at Delfina Foundation, London

Repatriation of Iraq's Looted Heritage under International and Domestic Law and Practice

The 13th Istanbul Biennial

The Encyclopedic Palace

Omar Kholeif

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Hauser & Wirth / Alan Cristea Gallery: A Spectrum Review

Creative Time Reports

Is soft power helping or hindering the state of the arts in Jordan?

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

Nadia Mounajjed

A Talk and Screening by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa

The excited chatter about unrest and uprisings in the western world has focused particularly on a number of countries in North Africa and in what we here refer to as the Middle East (meaning anything between eighteen to thirty-eight countries according to Wikipedia). In the UK, we have received a...

In certain respects, the demands on contemporary artists issued forth by a (purportedly novel) globalised cultural economy are starkly obvious in the Arab world. The concurrent fascination with contemporary art and the region has resulted in the now well-documented - and equally well-debated - critical and curatorial investment in contemporary...

Introduction

Khalil Rabah: Pages 7, 8, 9 at e-flux

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

Jens Maier-Rothe

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

Digitised media in the last decade has undoubtedly been propelled by the enormous speed of new technology and spontaneous platforms for rights, defined by Hakim Bey as 'Temporary Autonomous Zones' and 'network guerrillas' by Ozgur Uckan. Consequently, despite the mediated content of the mainstream media, social media sites have emerged...

One of the more important aspects of the uses of new media and in particular social media is the emergence and visualisation of online communities. These participant groups have utilised the tools offered by social media sites, such as the creation and exchange of user-generated content, to inform and influence...

An Introduction

Anthony Downey

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

Cultural Institutions, Urban Development, and Regional Cinema in the Gulf Today

Perceptions of Occupation and Control in Cyprus

For a Polysemic Reading of Both City and Territory

When Umru' al-Qais stood by the traces of the tent of his beloved in the middle of the desert of Hijaz, he shed tears that became the key to Arab poetry. Until recently, no one could have guessed that those tents would one day be made of concrete. These days,...

From Brute Ornament: Seher Shah's Recent Drawings

On-longing: A Project by Saba Innab

During the July sit-in in Tahrir Square in Cairo, the site of the revolution at the beginning of the year, a group of artists and filmmakers lit up a corner of the square with an open-source 'revolutionary' screen: Tahrir Cinema . Every night, a filmmaker, journalist or activist presented a...

The scale of the resistance among the people of the MENA region in the last year will remain an example in contemporary history. This resistance expresses a desire to build new ground and another social entity, which up till now has been latent. The clear desire is to build a...

Platform for discussion002 What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? Haig Aivazian 1 November 2011 The Unimaginable Things We Build is a multi-part project exploring the evolution of the rhetoric surrounding, and material state of, the tallest man-made structure in the world, Dubai's Burj Khalifa....

By bicycle, he travels the roads and the districts searching for an answer to his many questions. He is a man, Tunisian, Arab, Berber and a native with roots in the Maghreb, Africa, the Middle East ... He is of this Earth and these oceans.

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

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation

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