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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...

This is a very wide question and impossible to answer in a book, let alone a paragraph. However, it could boil down to two questions concerning visual artists, rather than visual culture per se: What can art do? And do artists have a responsibility to react and respond to their...

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Carole Alfarah in conversation with María Gómez López

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

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

Sophia Al-Maria: On Automobiles

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Ghazi Gherairi: Professor of Law, Carthage University

Antonia Carver: Director, Art Dubai

Iranian Carpet: Amir Mousavi

Making of.. Kiarostami Carpet

From Carpet to Celestial Heavens: Hamideh Razavi

Genealogy of a Territory at MuCEM, Marseille

Anthony Downey

Pan-Kaffirism in Iraq, South Africa, and Sri Lanka

A Provocation to the Question

'The future of arts looks promising, but it also risks looking stale if we're not too careful. I will concentrate here on what I think are important considerations in the shaping of spaces of encounter.'

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan

Sharjah Biennial 11 – Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography

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

Cardboards are leaned against a wall in a street. They form a peculiar assemblage one can identify as makeshift shelters. Fashioned out of the detritus of consumer society, the cardboards have become facades. They conceal women who were probably repudiated by their families. One of them emerges from her 'house'...

Sitting in the sweltering sun of Sharjah on a large rolled carpet on the open esplanade facing the museum, I express to an acquaintance, my uneasiness and inability to respond to the question. We need MENA (I had continually mistaken it for MENASA, unconsciously adding yet another region to the...

One needs to be careful with the concept of regions as geographical entities. Such an understanding is only valuable if it takes into account the way these regions relate to their neighbours, as frontiers are still too often frontiers of misunderstanding. The Middle East, like North Africa or the so-called...

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

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah

O Whale, Don't Swallow Our Moon: Ramallah

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

This Sea is Mine: Gaza

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

Partner institutions

Encounters Programme

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Reflections: Ala Younis Adania Shibli

Introduction: Qi2016 Curatorial Team

Responses

Acknowledgements

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

A roundtable discussion

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

Ismaïl Bahri in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Shezad Dawood in conversation with Sara Raza

Adonis in conversation with Laura Allsop

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Nada Sehnaoui in conversation with Laura Allsop

Michket Krifa in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Driss Ouadahi in conversation with Rachida Triki

Ala Ebtekar in conversation with Sara Raza

Tom Bogaert in conversation with Anthony Downey

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Guy Mannes-Abbott in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Jeanno Gaussi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Diana Al-Hadid in Conversation with Fawz Kabra

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Chapter 1: Intensities

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jasmina Metwaly in conversation with Angela Harutyunyan

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Wafaa Bilal in conversation with Sara Raza

Ala Younis in conversation with Liane Al-Ghusain

Heiko Lange in conversation with Amira Gad

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Pascal Hachem in conversation with Nour K Sacranie

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

Cynthia Zaven in conversation with Basak Senova

Simone Fattal in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Yuko Hasegawa in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo and Stephanie Bailey

Visualizing Palestine in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jeremy Hutchison in conversation with Natasha Hoare

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

Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Marie-Monique Steckel in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Chapter 7: Fabric

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 3: Intervals

Chapter 2: Details

A Question: Jalal Toufic

Online exhibition catalogue

Acknowledgements

Jumana Emil Abboud: A Happy Ending, Part II

Visitations: When aurality loses site* by Rayya Badran

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

Curator's Introduction

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

Looking at Wafaa Bilal's Domestic Tension : Barrak Alzaid

Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with Ala Younis

End of War in Iraq: The Yes Men and Steve Lambert

Hair and Milk Bottle: Hassan Sharif

Variation on Discord and Divisions: Mona Hatoum

Dream City in Tunis

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

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

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Rasha Salti in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Programme / Schedule

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Introduction

Farah Al-Nakib in conversation with Todd Reisz

Closing Remarks

Meriem Bennani in conversation with Myriam Ben Salah

Video documentation: Day 1

Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation with Sarah Abu Abdallah

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson

Alya Sebti in conversation with Göksu Kunak

UBIK in conversation with Isabella Ellaheh Hughes

Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Taysir Batniji in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Sussan Deyhim in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Matthias Lilienthal in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lara Khaldi in conversation with Ghalya Saadawi

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Caveh Zahedi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Robin Kahn in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Adelita Husni-Bey in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

Hiwa K in conversation with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf

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

Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou

Özgür Uçkan and Vasif Kortun in conversation with Basak Senova

Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Raed Yassin

Walid Siti in conversation with Nat Muller

Timo Nasseri in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Anthony Downey

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

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Sumesh Sharma in conversation with Amanprit Sandhu

Aikaterini Gegisian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Anthony Downey and Beatrix Ruf in conversation with Slavs and Tatars

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

Köken Ergun in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Mai Elwakil in conversation with Daniella Rose King

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi

Tarek Atoui in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ahd in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hisham Al-Madhloum in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Raed Yassin in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Discussing arts infrastructure in Tehran

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza

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

Joe Namy in conversation with Garine Aivazian

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

Wael Shawky in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Ayşe Erkmen in conversation with Basak Senova

Georgia Kotretsos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Foundland in conversation with Nat Muller

Adelina von Fürstenberg in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hicham Khalidi in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Kim Beamish in conversation with Sam Bowker

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part II

Younes Bouadi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Tarek Abou El Fetouh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad

Rifat Chadirji and Balkis Sharara in conversation with Amin Alsaden

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

Lamia Joreige in conversation with Anthony Downey

Christine Tohme in conversation with Rachel Dedman

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

Héla Ammar in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Meriç Algün Ringborg in conversation with Nora Razian

Amar Kanwar in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Eric Baudelaire in conversation with Anthony Downey

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

Hamza Halloubi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Alia Rayyan: Recounting the Past, Present and Future

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

Wided Rihana Khadraoui: Digitalizing Social Change through Cultural Institutions in Saudi Arabia

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

Lois Stonock: Mapping the Possible: Syrian Organizations, Movements and Platforms

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

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Sharjah Art Foundation, 17-19 March 2012

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Art and Culture in the ‘Imagined’ Arab World, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 13 April 2012

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Fawz Kabra

Coline Milliard

Charlotte Bank

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The Cairo Seminar in Alexandria, dOCUMENTA (13)

Sheyma Buali

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Malu Halasa

Two Exhibitions in Paris

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

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

A roundtable discussion at Tate Modern contemplates the role of alternative education

New initiative fosters connections between the Middle East and the western world

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Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

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Regional vis-à-vis Global Discourses: Contemporary Art from the Middle East

Future Imperfect, A Symposium

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Aimee Dawson

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Decolonizing Architecture at Tate Modern

Edge of Arabia Launches Culturunners

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Reema Salha Fadda

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Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

Tom Snow

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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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London book launch: 19 November, 18:30, Rivington Place

William Wells in conversation at Serpentine Galleries

A Report from the AUC

A Report from Home Works 7 and Athens Biennale 5 to 6

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Işıl Eğrikavuk's The Art of Disagreement

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On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’

The 2016 March Meeting

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Two Exhibitions on the Armenian Legacy in Anatolia

A Report from Cologne

Videobrasil

An Odd Piece of Research on the Many Virtues of Oriental Imagination

At the Salzburger Kunstverein

The Public and Intimate Lives of Arabic Calligraphy

Aimee Dawson

Language Arts at The Third Line

Live

Hans Ulrich Obrist: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Shumon Basar: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Shiva Balaghi: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Todd Reisz: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Okwui Enwezor: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Adam Szymczyk: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

John Akomfrah: in conversation with Anthony Downey

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

Ibn Khaldun’s The Muqadimmah

Crisis The End of Pearling in the Gulf (Qatar)

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

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

Dictaphone group

Hiwa K.

Seth Ayyaz

The Future Was Global/Art/Forum

Zoukak Theatre Company

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

Vikram Divecha

Episode Twelve: Prayer, Aerialist

A web series by Oreet Ashery

Kauther

A Hero Never Dies: Wissam Charaf

Beau Geste: Yto Barrada

Yellow, Blue, Red: Ali Karim

A tribute by Gelareh Kiazand

Sama Alshaibi

Larissa Sansour

Ahd

Ammar Al-Beik

Filipa César and Louis Henderson

Basir Mahmood

Council presents: The Against Nature Journal

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Trace Environments: Sovereignty, toxicity and the littoral

Contour Biennale 8 / DAI Roaming Assembly #12

Omar Robert Hamilton

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Cevdet Erek in conversation with Başak Şenova

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

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,...

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Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Reema Salha Fadda

Contour Biennale 8

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Notes on a film by Kamal Aljafari

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

Lizzy Collier

Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Invisible Architecture in Rana ElNemr’s Streams of Synonyms

Yazan Ashqar

Meeting Points 8

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun

Wael Shawky at the Fondazione Merz

Negative Ecstasy at Dirimart, Istanbul

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938–1948) at the Centre Pompidou

Natasha Marie Llorens

Nil Yalter at ARTER, Istanbul

Katia Kameli at the Mosaic Rooms

Closing Remarks

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Hassan Khan at Beirut Art Center

Inspired by calligraphy

Hamid Dabashi

Khalid Abdalla

Vikram Divecha at Tashkeel

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

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

At Aicon Gallery, New York

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

At Ab Anbar Gallery

Rozemin Keshvani

Participatory Art in the Middle East

Nicola Baird

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

An Introduction to Platform 010

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

Barrak Alzaid

The development of a healthy regional Arab art scene, like anywhere else in the world, requires the collaborative efforts of the different components that constitute it.

Anthony Downey

On Walking and Crawling

Tarek Al-Ghoussein at Galerie Brigitte Schenk

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

KVS Theater in Brussels

Grey Noise Gallery

Tehran’s Self-portrait

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Six Short Stories on Arabic Voice Acting

Rana Hamadeh at The Showroom, London

The Little Deaths of Christodoulos Panayiotou

Green Art Gallery

Ahmad Makia

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

An Ode to Performing Subjectivity in Research

Walead Beshty at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, James B Duke House

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

An Alternative Genealogy of Musique Concrète

Shady El Noshokaty at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo

The performative in the work of Hassan Khan

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

At the 41st Aeschylia Festival

The Subversive Feminine

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

The Unspoken Battle of Self-Censorship

The 13th Biennale de Lyon

Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

A Review of the 56th Venice Biennale

'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...'

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

'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...'

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

Franco Berardi

Lara Khaldi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Natasha Ginwala

Notes on a Giant Implosion

Monira Al Qadiri

Five Stages of an Artist Residency

Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

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 term 'Global South' is quite new to me – but since my practice is concerned with the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and the impact colonialism has on today's power structures I find it obvious that the concept of the 'Global South' is of great relevance in my...

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.

In the years that followed the destruction of the Berlin Wall, which triggered the rise of post-colonial studies, the definition of the term 'the Global South' has changed dramatically.

Conflicting Narratives and the Invention of Geographies

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

An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf

Tina Sherwell

Burak Delier

A Recourse to the Past

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

Building Institutions Through Practice

A Yemeni Art History

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Art and Culture Beyond Institutions in Amman

From the Intimate to the World

Le Dessous des Ratures (Beneath the Crossings Out)

Berlin Documentary Forum 3 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Can T-Wall Murals really Beautify the Fragmented Baghdad?

In the Shadow of Nasser

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

Global Art Forum 8 at Katara Art Center

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Mounira Al Solh at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut

33rpm and a Few Seconds by Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

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

Or, Severing History From the Person

In a globalized and quite complex world we need 'tools' to help shape our societies. This is what art institutions could be: giant toolboxes!

"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.'

'I suggest that we look at the past and present strengths of cultural organizations, which have always served social and informational purposes, regardless of region and time. It is in these two spheres that the future resides.'

'The future of art infrastructures in the region is still very much determined by pre-existing cultural misconceptions applied to audiences... During the last four years in Cairo, I've witnessed in several occasions how part of the audience has been marginalized according to nationality, class, race or economic income.'

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

Maryam Jafri at Gasworks

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

Cevdet Erek at Spike Island, Bristol

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation

Haleh Redjaian at Arratia Beer

A Review

HIWAR | Conversations in Amman

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

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Israel's National Photography Archives as a Case Study

Malak Helmy and Sophia Al Maria

Oreet Ashery

Eric Baudelaire

Taus Makhacheva

Malak Helmy

Nikolaj Larsen

Mounira Al Solh

Rosana Palazyan

Ariel Hassan

Uriel Orlow

Leung Chi Wo

Campus in Camps and Grupo Contrafilé

Shezad Dawood

Mohamed Fariji

Setareh Shahbazi

Notes from three spaces in which the law resounds

A project by Katia Kameli

A Story of an Exhibition

On the Rooftop

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

Basak Senova on Zeren Göktan's Counter (2013)

Hans Haacke

Adelita Husni-Bey

A Video Game Mausoleum for Bashar al-Assad

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

Naira Antoun

Makan

Yousef Moscatello

A project by Tom Bogaert for Ibraaz

Continuing Traditions of Satire, Art and the Struggle for Freedom in Syria

A project by Yousef Moscatello

A Project by Anahita Razmi

Transition, a photographic series by Myriam Abdelaziz

Two Projects by Sinisa Vlajkovic

Seher Shah's Recent Drawings

A Project by Saba Innab

A Project by Dictaphone Group

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

A Libyan Diary (Part III) - December 2011

Nikolaj Larsen

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Marwa Arsanios

Cecilia Andersson

Projects 'Graphic Witness' at Drawing Room, London 010 / 16 June 2017 When images of conflict and protest can be so easily captured on mobile devices, why translate them into graphic representations? How does the translation into graphic form change the act of witnessing, fabricate commentaries on instances of injustice,...

Mahmoud Bakhshi

Shadi Habib Allah

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Zamir Suleymanov

The Society of False Witnesses

Basma Alsharif

Setareh Shahbazi

Amira Hanafi

On Silence and Noise in Times of Crisis

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

Written by Mayssa Fattouh

Zoukak Theatre Company

Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi

An Online Performance

Seth Ayyaz

Helene Kazan

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...

Akira Mizuta Lippit, in Atomic Light (Shadow Optics), characterizes the shadow archive as what cannot be archived, and therefore survives when the archive is destroyed. The shadow archive describes the majority of Arab cultural memory, which survives in non-visual traces, such as the work done by memory and imagination in...

The Soldier: 'Indeed, I took these photographs from the pocket of a dead Arab, killed in Bab Al-Wad in the beginning of May 1948.

The Search for 'Nurafkan'

On Shuruq Harb's The Keeper

Dispatch One: the Artist and the Archive, June–September 2013

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

When Buildings Become Part of the Record

The Recordings of the Cosmopolitan

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'

When family members die they take their memories, facts and figures with them. Their stories, as well as their lies and omissions, become harder to track after they've gone. They leave behind mountains of material , with few entry points. If you dare to enter, you will find yourself alone...

An I for an Eye and Death of a Cameraman

Alsi Çavuşoğlu at Delfina Foundation, London

The 4th Thessaloniki Biennale

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

/si:n/ Festival of Video Art and Performance, Ramallah

The 13th Istanbul Biennial

Waterside Contemporary

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Contemporary Artistic Practice in Iran at a Revolutionary Moment

The Encyclopedic Palace

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

Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss

Meem Gallery, Dubai

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice

Gezi Resistance, Public Space and the Counter-monumental

Iraq and Palestine at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Hauser & Wirth / Alan Cristea Gallery: A Spectrum Review

Creative Time Reports

Creative Time Reports

Amy Charlesworth

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

Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers

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

Looking for Palestine in the Jordanian Music Scene

Gulf Labor

An Exhibition between Cairo and London

Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi at Chisenhale Gallery

Basim Magdy at Newman Popiashvili

The Problem of Nationality

Refraction: Moving Images on Palestine at P21 Gallery

Atfal Ahdath at Running Horse Contemporary

In the 1990s, it would have been difficult to find an artist in Egypt who thought that any of their contemporaries would sell their work at international auction and for thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars at that. Artists were busy negotiating other, more immediately local, elements of a...

Introduction

Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

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

Artistic Practices, Collective Action and Civil Society in Tunisia

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011

On the Memory of a Memorial

A New Communal Model

Jens Maier-Rothe

The Net is Not a Tool, It’s an Environment

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

The Impossibilities of Production in New Media

Tarek Khoury

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

Theatre As a Tool of Empowerment

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

Foundland

A significant component of Sada's programming provides seminars, lectures, and workshops to young, emerging artists and students in Baghdad. We do this using basic Internet connection, Skype, some simple software, and a projector. A private Facebook group is the site of extensive conversations, critique and debate. This was not done...

The MENA region is not short of attempts by cultural practitioners to interrogate, negotiate and redefine 'the public' (as manifested in the form of an institution, a public space, an audience, or the essentials of civil society). Some of most potent images of events over the last year in the...

Writing on the Walls: Transition, A Photographic Series by Myriam Abdelaziz

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

Ali Benmakhlouf

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

Dar al-Ma'mûn is a new arts centre and residency for artists and translators outside of Marrakech. The questions of public space and of civil society have been with us since the beginning, as we were trying to avoid creating a mere retreat for artists, a luxurious ivory tower for intellectuals...

A friend recently asked me, what would be my dream cultural/art space in Ramallah? In the midst of rapid urban construction in Ramallah, my impulse is not to build another building but create what is lacking – an open public space. I feel this would be an artistic, political and...

I will limit myself to tackling the situation from the point of view of the ‘common ground’, which is lost or has never been found. There is a wide gap between art practice on one side and the institutions on the other; the first doing the minimum in terms of...

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

The Enemy Inside Me

Ela Greenberg

Raymond Baker

Joe Khalil

Rachida Triki

Mayssa Fattouh

01: An old woman gets into a taxi and asks the driver to take her somewhere. The driver hits the accelerator and takes off. As they arrive at a traffic light, the driver hits the gas and speeds across the red light. The old lady panics and screams; 'Why did...

One of the important developments required in the region is the expansion of a critical discourse on local artistic practices. It is crucial to gain an in-depth understanding of the various generations of art practitioners, through detailed studies of their work in relation to the relevant contexts and debates. Research...

I believe that recent events and revolutions in the Middle East prove that getting acquainted with the region is more complicated than has been conveyed on the global scene until now. Behind a curtain of traditions, Middle Eastern people are dealing with the passion of globalization. My comments may only...

Mark Westmoreland

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation

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