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Installation Views

Shirin Neshat

Installation views

Two Gunshots Fired at the Installation Dialogue : Xiao Lu

Magdi Mostafa in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

Sussan Deyhim in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Farah Saleh in conversation with Marianna Liosi

Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Carole Alfarah in conversation with María Gómez López

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

A Video Installation

Shirin Neshat

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

Saad

Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Katia Kameli at the Mosaic Rooms

Hassan Khan at Beirut Art Center

Rayyane Tabet at Museo Marino Marini

At Aicon Gallery, New York

Earshot by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Portikus, Frankfurt

Jumana Manna at Chisenhale Gallery, London

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

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

On the Work of Basma Alsharif

From the Intimate to the World

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Mounira Al Solh at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut

Haig Aivazian’s multi-piece installation FUGERE at Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg

Mahmoud Bakhshi

I Think I Love You is an installation of oil paintings produced by art workers in Dafen, China. Paintings are crafted as replicas of a single, publicly-distributed image of His Highness Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates, and constitutional monarch of...

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? Anahita Razmi 1 November 2011 Anahita Razmi White Wall Tehran, 2007 Video, 0'49' Courtesy of the artist Anahita Razmi --> Anahita Razmi is an artist based in Stuttgart, Germany, working with video, photography and installation....

Sites of Return: Ramallah

O Whale, Don't Swallow Our Moon: Ramallah

Pattern Recognition: 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: Gaza

Sea of Stories: Beirut

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Responses

Acknowledgements

ARC.HIVE (2006–present): Adham Hafez

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

A roundtable discussion

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Shezad Dawood in conversation with Sara Raza

Adonis in conversation with Laura Allsop

Jack Persekian in conversation with Basak Senova

Nada Sehnaoui in conversation with Laura Allsop

Ala Ebtekar in conversation with Sara Raza

Tom Bogaert in conversation with Anthony Downey

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Jeanno Gaussi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Chapter 1: Intensities

Hassan Khan in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jasmina Metwaly in conversation with Angela Harutyunyan

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Wafaa Bilal in conversation with Sara Raza

Ala Younis in conversation with Liane Al-Ghusain

Abbas Akhavan in conversation with Anthony Downey

Pascal Hachem in conversation with Nour K Sacranie

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

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jeremy Hutchison in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Chapter 7: Fabric

Chapter 4: Measures

Chapter 3: Intervals

Chapter 2: Details

Preface: Jack Persekian

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

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

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Closing Remarks

Meriem Bennani in conversation with Myriam Ben Salah

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Randa Mirza in conversation with Amira Gad

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

Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Online exhibition catalogue

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Taysir Batniji in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Matthias Lilienthal in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lara Khaldi in conversation with Ghalya Saadawi

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Robin Kahn in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Adelita Husni-Bey in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mounira al Solh in conversation with Nat Muller

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Online exhibition catalogue

Lawrence Abu Hamdan in conversation with Anthony Downey

Seth Ayyaz in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou

Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Raed Yassin

Walid Siti in conversation with Nat Muller

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Timo Nasseri in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Anthony Downey

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Sumesh Sharma in conversation with Amanprit Sandhu

Aikaterini Gegisian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Anthony Downey and Beatrix Ruf in conversation with Slavs and Tatars

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

November Paynter and Didem Pekün in conversation with Basak Senova

Köken Ergun in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Burak Arıkan in conversation with Basak Senova

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Discussing arts infrastructure in Tehran

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

Mona Marzouk in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Rana Hamadeh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

Wael Shawky in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Georgia Kotretsos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Larissa Sansour in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

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

WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Kim Beamish in conversation with Sam Bowker

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

Tarek Abou El Fetouh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

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

Amar Kanwar in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Eric Baudelaire in conversation with Anthony Downey

Hamza Halloubi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Alia Rayyan: Recounting the Past, Present and Future

Ibraaz

Amira Gad

Ibraaz

Sharjah Art Foundation, 17-19 March 2012

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

Ibraaz

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

Ibraaz

Rachida Triki

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Malu Halasa

Two Exhibitions in Paris

Ibraaz

An Artist-Run Gallery Space in Cairo

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

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

Reema Salha Fadda

Tom Snow

Ibraaz

Online exhibition catalogue

Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

Ibraaz

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

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Two Exhibitions on the Armenian Legacy in Anatolia

A Report from Cologne

An Odd Piece of Research on the Many Virtues of Oriental Imagination

Larissa Sansour

Shuruq Harb: On Agency

Ala Younis: On Curating

Ibraaz Talks: Wafaa Bilal

Köken Ergun: Lived Experience

Basim Magdy & Stephanie Bailey: Collective Memory

Burak Arikan & Başak Şenova: Network Data

Language Arts at The Third Line

John Akomfrah: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Ibraaz

Hassan Sharif

Anas Al-Shaikh

Wafaa Bilal

Katia Kameli: Untitled (2011)

Seth Ayyaz

Vikram Divecha

Beau Geste: Yto Barrada

Paris Without a Sea: Mounira Al Solh

Sama Alshaibi

Farah Saleh

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain

Nation Estate

A Space Exodus

Larissa Sansour

Bouchra Khalili

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Trace Environments: Sovereignty, toxicity and the littoral

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Cevdet Erek in conversation with Başak Şenova

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

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On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Contour Biennale 8

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Lizzy Collier

Yazan Ashqar

Meeting Points 8

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Wael Shawky at the Fondazione Merz

Negative Ecstasy at Dirimart, Istanbul

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

Nil Yalter at ARTER, Istanbul

Closing Remarks

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Vikram Divecha at Tashkeel

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

Technology and Its Discontents

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Sophia Al-Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Edmund Clark at the Imperial War Museum, London

Etel Adnan at Serpentine Galleries

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Lara Baladi

The Artist as Awakener at AUB

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

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

On Assumption and Authority

Forests, Freaks and Performativity

An Introduction to Platform 010

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

Barrak Alzaid

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.

On Walking and Crawling

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Samah Hijawi

Green Art Gallery

An Alternative Genealogy of Musique Concrète

Shady El Noshokaty at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo

Vartan Avakian at Marfa’

The performative in the work of Hassan Khan

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

The 13th Biennale de Lyon

Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will

A Review of the 56th Venice Biennale

Maraya Art Centre

'The following considerations on performance as an artistic medium in the region of North Africa and Middle East refer to more general problems that relate to the art form's status as an institutionalized aesthetic practice...'

Interventions as Performative Gestures For Political Engagement in Jordan

Practice, Performance, Politics

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

'To avoid misunderstanding, I write from the perspective of Turkey, because I can't really speak for North Africa nor for the Middle East in general...'

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

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

Natasha Ginwala

Notes on a Giant Implosion

Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

The Cultural Centre of the Philippines opened to great political fanfare on 10 September 1969, with a ceremony that was graced by none less than California Governor Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy acting on the orders of President Nixon.

Strategic though it may be, the binary of 'South' and 'North' is no less reductive than the stale binaries of yore: of 'East' and 'West', communist and capitalist, aesthetics and politics, the list goes on.

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

A Recourse to the Past

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

A Yemeni Art History

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi

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

Burak Delier at Iniva

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

Or, Severing History From the Person

'You can't draw desire, you have to walk it.'

'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.'

Slavs and Tatars at The Third Line

Maryam Jafri at Gasworks

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

The Sharjah Art Foundation's 2014 March Meeting

Cevdet Erek at Spike Island, Bristol

Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation

Haleh Redjaian at Arratia Beer

Georgia Kotretsos: SPRING CLEANING and KARFI in Rabat

A Review

HIWAR | Conversations in Amman

Almagul Menlibayeva

Eric Baudelaire

Santiago Mostyn

Yogesh Barve & Clark House Initiative

Simohammed Fettaka & Basak Senova

Mounira Al Solh

Rosana Palazyan

Ariel Hassan

Uriel Orlow

Leung Chi Wo

Mohamed Fariji

Caline Aoun

Mahmoud Khaled

Iman Issa

Adelita Husni-Bey

Wafaa Bilal at Maraya Art Park, Sharjah

A project by Ali Cherri

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

Cynthia Zaven

Adelita Husni-Bey

A Project by Robin Kahn

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

Elevator Advertisements

Mahmoud Khaled

A Story in Parts

A project by Tom Bogaert for Ibraaz

A Project by Anahita Razmi

A Project by Saba Innab

A Libyan Diary (Part III) - December 2011

A Libyan Diary (Part II) - November 2011

Mustapha Benfodil

Lina Khatib

Khaled Hafez

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Basma Alsharif

On Silence and Noise in Times of Crisis

Tahrir Archives

Dena Al-Adeeb

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

Seth Ayyaz

Adham Faramawy

Hassan Khan

Hasan Hujairi

Helene Kazan

On Shuruq Harb's The Keeper

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

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

The Recordings of the Cosmopolitan

The 4th Thessaloniki Biennale

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

Waterside Contemporary

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Contemporary Artistic Practice in Iran at a Revolutionary Moment

The Encyclopedic Palace

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

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

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Gezi Resistance, Public Space and the Counter-monumental

Iraq and Palestine at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Hauser & Wirth / Alan Cristea Gallery: A Spectrum Review

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

An Exhibition between Cairo and London

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

Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi at Chisenhale Gallery

Atfal Ahdath at Running Horse Contemporary

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

Basim Magdy, 13 Essential Rules for Understanding the World , 2011, super 8 film transferred to HD video, 5 min. 16 sec. Courtesy the artist and Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York.

This is a big question with a lot of big words so I can either try and break down the question and resolve some of the semantic issues with it or simplify the question and try and answer that. Either way my response could be an essay, which I don't...

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.

Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

A New Communal Model

Jens Maier-Rothe

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

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

Theatre As a Tool of Empowerment

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

Foundland

Platform for discussion004 With the benefit of hindsight, what role does new media play in artistic practices, activism, and as an agent for social change in the Middle East and North Africa today? Basim Magdy 2 November 2012 Basim Magdy Every Subtle Gesture, 2012 - ongoing Colour prints on Fuji...

A video by Ali Cherri.

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...

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...

The digitally mediated world operates as a gigantic magnet for centralisation, regulation and control by giving shape to our lives, our languages and bodies. This means that the digital domain is increasingly becoming the very location of politics. I propose the term 'magnetic' as an invitation to re-think audio-visual artwork...

An Introduction

As a politically engaged artist, I have to believe that artistic practices do have the potential to offer insights and negotiate anything from the demands of cultural institutions to politics and the ideals of civil society. Without such a belief, the entire foundation of what I do would be rattled....

I am broadly interested in addressing the recontextualisation of cultural heritage in the MENA region by institutions, thus aligning it in the process with current developments in contemporary art at large. Artistic practices are frequently used to measure the economic and cultural growth of geographies. This is often achieved by...

A recent project led by Walid Raad attempted to draw attention to, and improve the treatment of, migrant workers on Saadiyat Island by Guggenheim and its Abu Dhabi partner, the Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC). Tactics were initially conducted privately but when it was clear to those involved that...

How artistic practices define and negotiate public space is to me the most significant issue in the question posed, which I will begin to discuss in the context of Algiers. The site specific practice of Amina Menia testifies to both the richness of meaning and difficulties of execution endemic to...

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

Ali Benmakhlouf

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

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,...

Yazan Khalili

During the July sit-in in Tahrir Square in Cairo, the site of the revolution at the beginning of the year, a group of artists and filmmakers lit up a corner of the square with an open-source 'revolutionary' screen: Tahrir Cinema . Every night, a filmmaker, journalist or activist presented a...

The Enemy Inside Me

Rachida Triki

Mayssa Fattouh