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Gulf Labor

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

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Ahmad Makia

An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf

Isak Berbic

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

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation with Sarah Abu Abdallah

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

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

The Art for Tomorrow Conference 2016 in Doha

Sophia Al-Maria: On Automobiles

Crisis The End of Pearling in the Gulf (Qatar)

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,...

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

Hans Haacke

Sophia Al-Maria

Meem Gallery, Dubai

Hauser & Wirth / Alan Cristea Gallery: A Spectrum Review

Nadia Mounajjed

Critical reflections on Ibraaz publications

This Sea is Mine: Gaza

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Ala Younis in conversation with Liane Al-Ghusain

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

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

Anas Al-Shaikh: My land, 2

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

Exhibition Overview

Looking at Wafaa Bilal's Domestic Tension : Barrak Alzaid

Farah Al-Nakib in conversation with Todd Reisz

JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Seth Ayyaz in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Sumesh Sharma in conversation with Amanprit Sandhu

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

Ahd in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hisham Al-Madhloum in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

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

Wael Shawky in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

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

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

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Gregory Sholette at Home Workspace Program

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

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On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’

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Ibraaz Talks: Wafaa Bilal

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Shumon Basar: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Todd Reisz: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Farah Al-Nakib: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

Ibn Khaldun’s The Muqadimmah

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

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

Anas Al-Shaikh

Wafaa Bilal

The Future Was Underwater

Adam Clifton: The Next Really Great Thing: A Discussion of the Next Step in Capital

Kevin Jones: Marketing Presentation for Boxed Branded Plush Toys as Art

Neha Vora: Warehouse as Dubai's Cultural Heritage

Vikram Divecha

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2014)

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2015)

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

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Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun

Vikram Divecha at Tashkeel

Sophia Al-Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

Barrak Alzaid

As a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle Eastern art, I am concerned with the urgent questions facing cultural production as well as those facing histories of cultural production. My response below reflects that concern.

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.

Six Short Stories on Arabic Voice Acting

Samah Hijawi

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

Maraya Art Centre

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

Franco Berardi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

Monira Al Qadiri

Lantian Xie at Grey Noise

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

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

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.

A Provocation to the Question

Tina Sherwell

Burak Delier

Building Institutions Through Practice

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi

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

Global Art Forum 8 at Katara Art Center

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?

'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.'

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

Monira Al Qadiri

Wafaa Bilal at Maraya Art Park, Sharjah

Notes from three spaces in which the law resounds

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

Yousef Moscatello

A project by Fayçal Baghriche

Dena Al-Adeeb

Written by Mayssa Fattouh

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

The Making of the Artwork by the Artist, the Museum and the Public

Kuwait’s National Works at the 55th Venice Biennale

Ibraaz Platform 005 Editorial

Aid and the Politics of Art in Processes of Contemporary Cultural Production

Looking for Palestine in the Jordanian Music Scene

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

Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi at Chisenhale Gallery

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

Jens Maier-Rothe

An Introduction

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

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,...

Yazid Anani

Reflections from a book on South Sinai

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...

Joe Khalil

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...

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation