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Nadia Mounajjed

Ibraaz

A Report on Future City

At the Salzburger Kunstverein

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Natasha Ginwala

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi

Maryam Jafri at Gasworks

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Hauser & Wirth / Alan Cristea Gallery: A Spectrum Review

Creative Time Reports

Ibraaz Platform 005 Editorial

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...

Critical reflections on Ibraaz publications

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

Biographies

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Responses

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

A roundtable discussion

Michket Krifa in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Jeremy Hutchison in conversation with Natasha Hoare

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

Dream City in Tunis

Closing Remarks

JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Adelita Husni-Bey in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

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

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Discussing arts infrastructure in Tehran

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

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

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Adelina von Fürstenberg in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

Héla Ammar in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Anthony Downey: Introduction to 'Future Imperfect'

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On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’

Live

Okwui Enwezor: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Murtaza Vali: 'Arresting Flows, Stacking Forms'

Deceptive Authoritarianisms: Between Artificial and Discredited Personhoods

London book launch

Edited by Anthony Downey (Sternberg Press, 2016)

Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Closing Remarks

Inspired by calligraphy

Lara Baladi

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

Barrak Alzaid

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Genealogy of a Territory at MuCEM, Marseille

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

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

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

Maraya Art Centre

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

Franco Berardi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

Anthony Downey

In a recent video work, Mouthfeel (2014) and a related lecture-performance titled Playlist (2014), I focused on symmetries between forms of aspirational consumption in the Global South.

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...

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

An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

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

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

Hans Haacke

On Presidents & Superheroes

...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.

The Recordings of the Cosmopolitan

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

The 4th Thessaloniki Biennale

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

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...

A new book has surfaced on the shelves of Lebanese and possibly Arab bookstores. The title reads: Pure Nostalgia . As in Exclusive Nostalgia, as in free from this contaminated present . The emergence of this publication is perhaps symptomatic of something larger than a trivial nostalgia quenched by the...

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...

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

The Impossibilities of Production in New Media

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

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

Nada Sehnaoui, Fractions of Memory 2003, installation. In the world we live in, where public spaces are meagre, artists create visual ideas where the onlooker becomes an active citizen. Installation artist Nada Sehnaoui deals with collective memory and identity, communicated in unused large public areas in Beirut, Lebanon (Fractions of...

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....

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...

Joe Khalil

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...

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation

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