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

A Roundtable Discussion from The Middle East Institute

An I for an Eye and Death of a Cameraman

Hauser & Wirth / Alan Cristea Gallery: A Spectrum Review

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

Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Randa Mirza in conversation with Amira Gad

Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Özgür Uçkan and Vasif Kortun in conversation with Basak Senova

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Raed Yassin in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad

Christine Tohme in conversation with Rachel Dedman

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

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

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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...

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

Hiwa K.

Fayçal Baghriche

Heba Y. Amin

Mohamed Diab

Yaman (2016)

Fade to Black (2015)

Amer AlBarzawi

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Lara Baladi

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

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

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

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

Lara Khaldi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

Conflicting Narratives and the Invention of Geographies

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

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

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan

Adelita Husni-Bey

A project by Ali Cherri

A project by Maha Maamoun

The Circus (2)

On the Rooftop

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,...

Tahrir Archives

Helene Kazan

The Search for 'Nurafkan'

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

Waterside Contemporary

Iraq and Palestine at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Using new media tools and technologies available today has become standard practice for a range of activities; it's become a source of educational content and entertainment, as well as a means of communicating from conflict zones or even from the comfort of our homes. New media technologies available on smart...

Since the 25th of January 2011, a traditional arts programming model has become functionally irrelevant in Egypt. In this context of conflict and change, diverse publics have asked to use Townhouse's spaces in ways that extend far beyond the scope of visual arts exhibitions. Consequently, over the past year, we...

Cities have long been sites for conflict, from war and the oppressions of dictators to racisms and religious hatreds. And yet, where national states have historically responded by militarizing conflict, cities have tended to triage conflict through commerce and civic activity. Often the overcoming of urban conflicts became the source...

نصوص تقاطع الأعمال الفنّيّة

مدن 5 | غزة، باللون الأحمر

"الأيدي العائدة | حول معرض "يا حوت لا توكل قمرنا

"اسم الجدّة | عن العمل الفوتوغرافي "مراية تيتا" لرندة شعث، من معرض "أهل البحر

متمردون بالمصادفة، سنوات لا ترحم" عن "العودة" غير المألوفة في المشهد الفلسطيني"

لما شتَّت الدنيا سمك

عودة" ليلية يقودها الحمام"

آثار حيَّة | على الطريق من النقب إلى كانبيرا

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

Edited by Anthony Downey (jrp|ringier, 2015)

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

Critical reflections on Ibraaz publications

Publications كتابة هذا البحر 010 / 31 August 2017 تمت كتابة هذه النصوص بأعقاب قلنديا الدولي 2016 نسخة 'هذا البحر لي'، وفي إطار مساق 'الكتابة مع الصور' وهو مساق تجريبي بادر إليه برنامج الثقافة والفنون في مؤسسة عبد المحسن القطَّان وتم تنظيمه بشراكة المتحف الفلسطيني وجمعية الثقافة العربية، ورواق، ومركز...

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

O Whale, Don't Swallow Our Moon: Ramallah

Pattern Recognition: Ramallah

A Series of Un-Curated Events: Ramallah

/Tilted/: 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

Sea of Stories: Beirut

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

After Thoughts: Shuruq Harb

Programme Downloads

Acknowledgements

Partner institutions

Encounters Programme

Bethlehem

Amman

London

Ramallah & Al-Bireh

Jerusalem

Haifa

Gaza

Beirut

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Reflections: Ala Younis Adania Shibli

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Introduction: Qi2016 Curatorial Team

Responses

Acknowledgements

Installation Views

ARC.HIVE (2006–present): Adham Hafez

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

Installation views

A roundtable discussion

Adonis in conversation with Laura Allsop

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Jack Persekian in conversation with Basak Senova

Nada Sehnaoui in conversation with Laura Allsop

Tom Bogaert in conversation with Anthony Downey

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Chapter 1: Intensities

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Anthony Downey

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Wafaa Bilal in conversation with Sara Raza

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

Visualizing Palestine in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Downloadable Exhibition Guide

Fractures: Children's Activity Book

Chapter 7: Fabric

Chapter 6: Writing

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 4: Measures

Chapter 3: Intervals

Chapter 2: Details

A Question: Jalal Toufic

Editor's Foreword: Anthony Downey

Preface: Jack Persekian

Introduction: Basak Senova

Online exhibition catalogue

A View from the City: Tina Sherwell

Acknowledgements

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

Basma Alsharif: We Began by Measuring Distance

Joe Namy: space, breath, time

Samah Hijawi: Paradise Series

Jumana Emil Abboud: A Happy Ending, Part II

Anas Al-Shaikh: My land, 2

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

Performance documentation: Lin Yilin

Chic Point Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints: Sharif Waked

Bent Jbeil: Wael Shawky

Hair and Milk Bottle: Hassan Sharif

Two Gunshots Fired at the Installation Dialogue : Xiao Lu

Photographs With A Flag: Mohammed Kazem

I March In The Parade Of Liberty But As Long As I Love You I'm Not Free: Sharon Hayes

Variation on Discord and Divisions: Mona Hatoum

Crossing Surda (a record of going to and from work): Emily Jacir

Operation Atropos: Coco Fusco

OLGA'S NOTES, all those restless bodies: Marwa Arsanios

A Tress of Hair: Doa Aly

Dream City in Tunis

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Programme / Schedule

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Introduction

Online exhibition catalogue

Farah Al-Nakib in conversation with Todd Reisz

Closing Remarks

Meriem Bennani in conversation with Myriam Ben Salah

Online Programme

Video documentation: Day 2

Video documentation: Day 1

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

Online exhibition catalogue

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

Sussan Deyhim in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Matthias Lilienthal in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Caveh Zahedi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Robin Kahn in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mounira al Solh in conversation with Nat Muller

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Online exhibition catalogue

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Dia Azzawi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Walid Siti in conversation with Nat Muller

Mohanad Yaqubi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Aikaterini Gegisian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jonas Staal in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi

Ahd in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Carole Alfarah in conversation with María Gómez López

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

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

Younes Bouadi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lamia Joreige in conversation with Anthony Downey

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

Amar Kanwar in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Eric Baudelaire in conversation with Anthony Downey

Hamza Halloubi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Anthony Downey: Introduction to 'Future Imperfect'

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

Nile Sunset Annex: Plotting in Egypt: Art People

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

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

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Nour K Sacranie

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Charlotte Bank

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Malu Halasa

Two Exhibitions in Paris

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

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

Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

Ibraaz in partnership with Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art

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

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Future Imperfect, A Symposium

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Decolonizing Architecture at Tate Modern

News The Jerusalem Show 007 / 24 October 2014 Ibraaz is pleased to announce the opening of THE JERUSALEM SHOW VII: FRACTURES. Curated by Basak Senova and organized by Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, this year's show runs from 24 October to 7 November 2014, and is presented in...

Reema Salha Fadda

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Online exhibition catalogue

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Ibraaz Talks: Wafaa Bilal

Language Arts at The Third Line

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Okwui Enwezor: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Ibn Khaldun’s The Muqadimmah

Anthony Downey: Editor-in-Chief, Ibraaz

Moncef Dhouib: Theatre- and film-maker

Tania El Khoury: Live artist

Rita Alaoui: Artist

Hiwa K.: Artist

Oumaïma Manai: Choreographer

Ghazi Gherairi: Professor of Law, Carthage University

Kamel Lazaar: Founder, Kamel Lazaar Foundation

Adel Abidin: Artist

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: Writer

Antonia Carver: Director, Art Dubai

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Wael Shawky

Lin Yilin

Wafaa Bilal

Işıl Eğrikavuk

Zoukak Theatre Company

Sondos Shabayek

Kim Beamish

Kazın Ayağı : (Actually, that's not the case )

A Hero Never Dies: Wissam Charaf

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Aikaterini Gegisian and Fatma Çiftçi

Trace Environments: Sovereignty, toxicity and the littoral

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2014)

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2015)

London book launch

Edited by Anthony Downey (Walther König Verlag, 2017)

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

Edited by Anthony Downey (Sternberg Press, 2016)

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,...

Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun

Natasha Marie Llorens

Closing Remarks

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Sophia Al-Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Reflections on Reflections

Edmund Clark at the Imperial War Museum, London

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

At Ab Anbar Gallery

Rozemin Keshvani

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

Participatory Art in the Middle East

Nicola Baird

The 37th EVA International

An Introduction to Platform 010

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.

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.

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.

Anthony Downey

On Walking and Crawling

Tarek Al-Ghoussein at Galerie Brigitte Schenk

Tehran’s Self-portrait

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

The Unspoken Battle of Self-Censorship

The 13th Biennale de Lyon

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

A Review of the 56th Venice Biennale

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

Franco Berardi

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

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Monira Al Qadiri

Five Stages of an Artist Residency

Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

On the Work of Basma Alsharif

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

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

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

Building Institutions Through Practice

Can T-Wall Murals really Beautify the Fragmented Baghdad?

In the Shadow of Nasser

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

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

Almagul Menlibayeva

Abdullah Al-Mutairi

Sarah Abu Abdallah

Malak Helmy and Sophia Al Maria

Oreet Ashery

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

Eric Baudelaire

Santiago Mostyn

Taus Makhacheva

Malak Helmy

Yogesh Barve & Clark House Initiative

Nikolaj Larsen

Simohammed Fettaka & Basak Senova

Basma Alsharif

Mounira Al Solh

Rosana Palazyan

Ariel Hassan

Youmna Chlala

Meriç Algün Ringborg

Uriel Orlow

Leung Chi Wo

Aikaterini Gegisian

Campus in Camps and Grupo Contrafilé

Shezad Dawood

Mohamed Fariji

Isak Berbic

Caline Aoun

Mohamed Abdelkarim

Mahmoud Khaled

Azin Feizabadi

Monira Al Qadiri

Iman Issa

Jasmina Metwaly

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

Medrar .TV

Wafaa Bilal at Maraya Art Park, Sharjah

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg

Setareh Shahbazi

Notes from three spaces in which the law resounds

An online archive by Lucien Samaha

A project by Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

A project by Katia Kameli

A Story of an Exhibition

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

The Part about the Bandits Pt.2

Basak Senova on Zeren Göktan's Counter (2013)

Hans Haacke

Sophia Al-Maria

Raed Yassin

Lasse Lau

Cynthia Zaven

Adelita Husni-Bey

A Project by Robin Kahn

A Video Game Mausoleum for Bashar al-Assad

Documenting the Backlash

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

An Image of a Revolution

Elevator Advertisements

Mahmoud Khaled

Naira Antoun

Makan

Dream Homes and Community-building

Roy Samaha

Yousef Moscatello

A Story in Parts

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 Fayçal Baghriche

A Project by Anahita Razmi

Transition, a photographic series by Myriam Abdelaziz

Two Projects by Sinisa Vlajkovic

Seher Shah's Recent Drawings

Isak Berbic

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

A Libyan Diary (Part II) - November 2011

Mustapha Benfodil

Lina Khatib

Khaled Hafez

Nikolaj Larsen

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Marwa Arsanios

Batroun Projects

On Presidents & Superheroes

Dalia Khamissy

Francesco Jodice

Cecilia Andersson

Mahmoud Bakhshi

A project by Benji Boyadgian

Shadi Habib Allah

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Zamir Suleymanov

The Society of False Witnesses

Basma Alsharif

Morehshin Allahyari

Kamal Aljafari

Navine G. Khan-Dossos

Setareh Shahbazi

Amira Hanafi

On Silence and Noise in Times of Crisis

Dena Al-Adeeb

Ahmed Badry

Maya Chami

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

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

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

Tom Bogaert

Written by Mayssa Fattouh

Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind

Zoukak Theatre Company

Sohrab Kashani

Meriem Bennani

Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi

An Online Performance

Seth Ayyaz

Burak Delier

Urok Shirhan

Adham Faramawy

Hassan Khan

Hasan Hujairi

Joe Namy

Samah Hijawi

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.

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.

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

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

When Buildings Become Part of the Record

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'

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

Gezi Resistance, Public Space and the Counter-monumental

Gezira Art Center, Cairo

Amy Charlesworth

Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers

Ibraaz Platform 005 Editorial

Nadia Mounajjed

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

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 the globalised world we live in, I feel that creating the image of an enemy becomes a difficult task. It becomes difficult to name and make symbols for an enemy – an abstract 'evil' – since things are never abstract, but always and at any time connected and related.

Introduction

Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

Artistic Practice from Tirana to Tangier

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

Jens Maier-Rothe

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

Theatre As a Tool of Empowerment

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

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...

An Introduction

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

Yazid Anani

Mirene Arsanios

Reflections from a book on South Sinai

Middle Eastern culture, which is Islamic and mainly very conservative, is in the process of redefining its interpretation of, and relationship to, visual culture. The role of contemporary art in the Middle East is different to that in many parts of world. Design, advertising, media, performance, photography, conceptual art, new...

Walking in the Darkness of a Promised Light

For so many decades the region of MENA has been synonymous with religious extremism, oppression of women, dictatorial regimes and, at varying levels, high rates of illiteracy and backwardness. In the last decade of the twentieth century the region has seen various political tumults including Islamic terrorism and its war...

The political and cultural density of the Middle East is as diverse, rich and complex as that of Central Europe with which it shares a history of struggle about disputed borders, clashing ideologies and religious turmoil. The fact that the term by which the region is commonly identified is a...

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation