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Interventions as Performative Gestures For Political Engagement in Jordan

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

The Sketches of Mahmoud Al Rifai at FADA 317

Samah Hijawi

Art and Culture Beyond Institutions in Amman

Isak Berbic

Shadi Habib Allah

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

Looking for Palestine in the Jordanian Music Scene

Samah Hijawi Documents for a Narrative of Art History of Jordan, 2010-ongoing M ulti-media project Video excerpt, 1'40" Courtesy of the artist This ongoing research project is concerned with different aspects that have influenced the development of visual art practices in Jordan over the last 60 years. It uses multi-media...

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Pattern Recognition: Ramallah

A Series of Un-Curated Events: Ramallah

/Tilted/: 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: Amman

This Sea is Mine: Gaza

Biographies

Partner institutions

Reflections: Ala Younis Adania Shibli

Jack Persekian in conversation with Basak Senova

Tom Bogaert in conversation with Anthony Downey

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jeanno Gaussi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Chapter 1: Intensities

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Pascal Hachem in conversation with Nour K Sacranie

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Chapter 2: Details

Samah Hijawi: Paradise Series

Anas Al-Shaikh: My land, 2

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Farah Saleh in conversation with Marianna Liosi

Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou

Mohanad Yaqubi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Mai Elwakil in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

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

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Younes Bouadi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

Lois Stonock: Mapping the Possible: Syrian Organizations, Movements and Platforms

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

Nour K Sacranie

Samiha Khalil

1967 in Art and Its Histories, June 1-2, 2012 American University of Beirut, Lebanon

New initiative fosters connections between the Middle East and the western world

Ibraaz

Aimee Dawson

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

Okwui Enwezor: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Anas Al-Shaikh

Tom Bogaert

Al Intithar : (The Waiting )

On Navigating Without a Compass

Yazan Ashqar

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Etel Adnan at Serpentine Galleries

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Anthony Downey

On Walking and Crawling

KVS Theater in Brussels

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

Narratives and Ghosts from the International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978, at MACBA

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

Building Institutions Through Practice

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Re-routing Institutional Critique

'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.'

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

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

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

HIWAR | Conversations in Amman

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

Uriel Orlow

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

The Circus (2)

On the Rooftop

A Video Game Mausoleum for Bashar al-Assad

A project by Tom Bogaert for Ibraaz

A Project by Saba Innab

Cecilia Andersson

Basma Alsharif

Tom Bogaert

Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi

Samah Hijawi

Akira Mizuta Lippit, in Atomic Light (Shadow Optics), characterizes the shadow archive as what cannot be archived, and therefore survives when the archive is destroyed. The shadow archive describes the majority of Arab cultural memory, which survives in non-visual traces, such as the work done by memory and imagination in...

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh’s 'A photographic conversation from Burj al-Shamali Camp'

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

Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers

Ibraaz Platform 005 Editorial

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

Refraction: Moving Images on Palestine at P21 Gallery

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

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...

Some artists in these parts of the world began using new media in their work in the 1990s. This happened for a number of reasons but the most important one, I believe, was that of reaching the general public, which was far from being interested in art. In this respect,...

A significant component of Sada's programming provides seminars, lectures, and workshops to young, emerging artists and students in Baghdad. We do this using basic Internet connection, Skype, some simple software, and a projector. A private Facebook group is the site of extensive conversations, critique and debate. This was not done...

I treated a young homeless kid to some tea at the local coffee shop one morning and asked him how he usually spent his day. He told me he would hang out on the street, ask people for money so that later in the evening he would go to the...

For a Polysemic Reading of Both City and Territory

On-longing: A Project by Saba Innab

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...

I will limit myself to tackling the situation from the point of view of the ‘common ground’, which is lost or has never been found. There is a wide gap between art practice on one side and the institutions on the other; the first doing the minimum in terms of...

Yazid Anani

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

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...

For the past decades, culture, including visual art, has not been a priority for most governments in the region, and this has led to the status quo in fine arts we experience today. The isolation between the public and the arts is the result of the lack of serious programmes...

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