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Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Gaza

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

William Wells in conversation at Serpentine Galleries

The 2016 March Meeting

'When one speaks of 'art infrastructures', it is crucial to recognize that infrastructures are, most importantly, people...and one of the most critical and urgent needs is for arts education.'

Campus in Camps and Grupo Contrafilé

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...

Sites of Return: Ramallah

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

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

This Sea is Mine: Gaza

Biographies

Partner institutions

Encounters Programme

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Christine Tohme in conversation with Anthony Downey

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Hassan Khan in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Ala Younis in conversation with Liane Al-Ghusain

Heiko Lange in conversation with Amira Gad

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Simone Fattal in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

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

Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with Ala Younis

Magdi Mostafa in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Curatorial Narrative

Introduction

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson

Sussan Deyhim in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Robin Kahn in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hiwa K in conversation with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf

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

Walid Siti in conversation with Nat Muller

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Eric Van Hove in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Anthony Downey and Beatrix Ruf in conversation with Slavs and Tatars

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

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

Burak Arıkan in conversation with Basak Senova

Hisham Al-Madhloum in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Eungie Joo in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Discussing arts infrastructure in Tehran

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

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

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Adelina von Fürstenberg in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hicham Khalidi in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

Christine Tohme in conversation with Rachel Dedman

Héla Ammar in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

Alia Rayyan: Recounting the Past, Present and Future

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

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

The Cairo Seminar in Alexandria, dOCUMENTA (13)

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

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An Artist-Run Gallery Space in Cairo

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09–11 May, Museé National du Bardo, Tunis

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Edge of Arabia Launches Culturunners

Tom Snow

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...

Gregory Sholette at Home Workspace Program

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Two Exhibitions on the Armenian Legacy in Anatolia

Videobrasil

At the Salzburger Kunstverein

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

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

Hiwa K.

A web series by Oreet Ashery

Mario Rizzi

Farah Saleh

Ahd

Omar Robert Hamilton

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

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

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Inspired by calligraphy

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Reflections on Reflections

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

Rozemin Keshvani

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

On Assumption and Authority

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

There is never a neutral position for critique, but there certainly ought to be the practice of critique. And that is precisely the element that is missing in top-down formation of the art scene in West Asia and North Africa, and perhaps in the rest of the non-western art scene.

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.

On Walking and Crawling

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Choreographing Spaces of Gesticulation

Six Short Stories on Arabic Voice Acting

The Little Deaths of Christodoulos Panayiotou

An Alternative Genealogy of Musique Concrète

Interventions as Performative Gestures For Political Engagement in Jordan

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Notes on a Giant Implosion

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

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

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

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.

A Provocation to the Question

Burak Delier

Building Institutions Through Practice

A Yemeni Art History

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Art and Culture Beyond Institutions in Amman

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

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

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

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."

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

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

'Better imagine now, rather than later.'

'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

Mirene Arsanios

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

A Review

HIWAR | Conversations in Amman

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

Almagul Menlibayeva

Mohamed Fariji

Mohamed Abdelkarim

Azin Feizabadi

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

Medrar .TV

On the Rooftop

A project by Fayçal Baghriche

A Libyan Diary (Part III) - December 2011

A Libyan Diary (Part II) - November 2011

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Amira Hanafi

Ahmed Badry

Written by Mayssa Fattouh

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...

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

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

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Omar Kholeif

Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss

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

Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing

The Problem of Nationality

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 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

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

The Impossibilities of Production in New Media

Tarek Khoury

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

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...

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

Home Workspace: A Conversation Between Christine Tohme and Anthony Downey

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...

Yazid Anani

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...

Ela Greenberg

Raymond Baker

When we began our research into the current art landscape of the Middle East, we noticed various reasons why the bonds between regional art communities are weakened. Prevailing art discourses are largely externally driven; the way in which art is circulated, marketed and publicised doesn't respond in any significant way...

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation