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Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

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...

Nowadays, visual culture is considered to be a vehicle for the constant delivering of messages of identity to the public. The image has become the universal means of recalling to an audience the history of how we speak; how we think; and how we envision the future. Until a few...

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': 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

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

Partner institutions

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Reflections: Ala Younis Adania Shibli

Responses

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

A roundtable discussion

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

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

Tom Bogaert in conversation with Anthony Downey

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Guy Mannes-Abbott in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Jeanno Gaussi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Chapter 1: Intensities

Hassan Khan in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Wafaa Bilal in conversation with Sara Raza

Heiko Lange in conversation with Amira Gad

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

Jeremy Hutchison in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Marie-Monique Steckel in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Chapter 2: Details

Editor's Foreword: Anthony Downey

A View from the City: Tina Sherwell

Joe Namy: space, breath, time

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

Curator's Introduction

Looking at Wafaa Bilal's Domestic Tension : Barrak Alzaid

Bent Jbeil: Wael Shawky

Operation Atropos: Coco Fusco

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

Dream City in Tunis

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Closing Remarks

Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation with Sarah Abu Abdallah

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

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

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Caveh Zahedi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Robin Kahn in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Adelita Husni-Bey in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

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

Dia Azzawi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Raed Yassin

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Mohanad Yaqubi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Sumesh Sharma in conversation with Amanprit Sandhu

Aikaterini Gegisian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

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

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi

Tarek Atoui in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hisham Al-Madhloum in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Discussing arts infrastructure in Tehran

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

Joe Namy in conversation with Garine Aivazian

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

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

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Larissa Sansour in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Hicham Khalidi in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Tarek Abou El Fetouh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

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

Héla Ammar in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Meriç Algün Ringborg in conversation with Nora Razian

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

Hamza Halloubi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Alia Rayyan: Recounting the Past, Present and Future

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

Ibraaz

Reflections 03

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

Nour K Sacranie

Nour K Sacranie

Samiha Khalil

Coline Milliard

Nour K Sacranie

Sheyma Buali

Malu Halasa

Two Exhibitions in Paris

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

Questions to be addressed

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

A Slavs and Tatars Panel Discussion at Art Space Pythagorion

A Report on Future City

Future Imperfect, A Symposium

Ibraaz

Edge of Arabia Launches Culturunners

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

A Report from Cologne

Larissa Sansour

Language Arts at The Third Line

Live

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Farah Al-Nakib: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

John Akomfrah: in conversation with Anthony Downey

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

Crisis The End of Pearling in the Gulf (Qatar)

Wael Shawky

Ibraaz

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

Episode One

Trailer

A web series by Oreet Ashery

Al Intithar : (The Waiting )

Sama Alshaibi

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain

Larissa Sansour

Aikaterini Gegisian and Fatma Çiftçi

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

Mithkal Alzghair

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

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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On Navigating Without a Compass

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Lizzy Collier

Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Yazan Ashqar

Wael Shawky at the Fondazione Merz

Negative Ecstasy at Dirimart, Istanbul

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

Natasha Marie Llorens

Closing Remarks

Inspired by calligraphy

Vikram Divecha at Tashkeel

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

At Aicon Gallery, New York

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

Rozemin Keshvani

The 37th EVA International

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

Forests, Freaks and Performativity

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.

Tarek Al-Ghoussein at Galerie Brigitte Schenk

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Samah Hijawi

Ahmad Makia

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

The performative in the work of Hassan Khan

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

'Mixed Media I (2009) is a list of 50 pages of technical descriptions of contemporary art pieces. The list, made up of automatic extractions of data about techniques used in contemporary art practices, is a multi-format, translatable database...'

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Interventions as Performative Gestures For Political Engagement in Jordan

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

'A few notes on the difference between performance art and mayonnaise...'

Franco Berardi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Notes on a Giant Implosion

Lantian Xie at Grey Noise

Five Stages of an Artist Residency

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

Portrait of a Salafi en abyme in the Cyber World

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

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

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...

Conflicting Narratives and the Invention of Geographies

Tina Sherwell

A Recourse to the Past

Building Institutions Through Practice

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

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

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

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

Or, Severing History From the Person

Reflections on Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program, 2013-14

Reflections on Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program, 2013-14

Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

A Review

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

Almagul Menlibayeva

Oreet Ashery

Simohammed Fettaka & Basak Senova

Meriç Algün Ringborg

Mahmoud Khaled

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

Notes from three spaces in which the law resounds

A project by Katia Kameli

A Story of an Exhibition

Cynthia Zaven

Mahmoud Khaled

A Project by Dictaphone Group

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

On Presidents & Superheroes

Zamir Suleymanov

Basma Alsharif

Dena Al-Adeeb

Seth Ayyaz

Adham Faramawy

Joe Namy

Samah Hijawi

I envision the liberation of an archive (from attachment to a person, state, or region) through its transfiguration into a database. This emancipation requires dematerialization and displacement.

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

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'

The 4th Thessaloniki Biennale

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

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Contemporary Artistic Practice in Iran at a Revolutionary Moment

Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss

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

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Tinkerings on the Instable Present Tense

Amy Charlesworth

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

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

Nadia Mounajjed

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

The Problem of Nationality

Atfal Ahdath at Running Horse Contemporary

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

It stipulates in my working contract as a professor in Middle East history at Leiden University that I must participate in 'media outreach'. This means that I must either seek out media outlets and contribute to a particular conversation about the Middle East, or, if contacted by a media representative,...

Introduction

Artistic Practices, Collective Action and Civil Society in Tunisia

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

Jens Maier-Rothe

Tarek Khoury

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

Theatre As a Tool of Empowerment

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

Foundland

One of the more important aspects of the uses of new media and in particular social media is the emergence and visualisation of online communities. These participant groups have utilised the tools offered by social media sites, such as the creation and exchange of user-generated content, to inform and influence...

An Introduction

Anthony Downey

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

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...

The Enemy Inside Me

Ela Greenberg

In an email dialogue between Beirut-based architect Tony Chakar and critic Stephen Wright (published in the catalogue for Out of Beirut at Modern Art Oxford in 2006), Chakar takes Wright to task for his habitual use of the label 'Middle East': 'The more I thought about it the more it...

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...

When did the major museums of the West start taking contemporary Middle Eastern art into consideration? After 2006, with the first successful sale of Middle Eastern contemporary art by Christie's in Dubai, and the announcement shortly afterwards that Abu Dhabi was going to invest billions in museum creation. Of course,...

Mark Westmoreland