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

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Platform for discussion002 What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? Newsha Tavakolian 1 November 2011 Newsha Tavakolian, 2011 Photograph Courtesy of the artist 7: Members of the voluntary paramilitary force, the baseej, shot and killed one man and wounded others in a one million strong...

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

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

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News JAOU Tunis 2015 008 / 18 May 2015 Jaou Tunis 2015. Copyright Kamel Lazaar Foundation. Visual Culture in an Age of Global Conflict The Kamel Lazaar Foundation is pleased to announce that it will stage a two-day conference at the National Museum of Bardo from 28–29 May, 2015. This...

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Randa Mirza in conversation with Amira Gad

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Jonas Staal in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Amira Gad

Sharjah Art Foundation, 17-19 March 2012

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

Isabella Ellaheh Hughes

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

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Charlotte Bank

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Two Exhibitions in Paris

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

Notes from a roundtable discussion on the state of the arts in Egypt

A roundtable discussion at Tate Modern contemplates the role of alternative education

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10 Years On: Art and Everyday Life in Iraq and Iran

The Institute for Human Activities

Contemporary Art from the Middle East

Ibraaz in partnership with Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art

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News The Jerusalem Show 007 / 24 October 2014 Ibraaz is pleased to announce the opening of THE JERUSALEM SHOW VII: FRACTURES. Curated by Basak Senova and organized by Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, this year's show runs from 24 October to 7 November 2014, and is presented in...

Theme: Performance

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Tom Snow

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Işıl Eğrikavuk's The Art of Disagreement

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Jim Quilty

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Videobrasil

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The Annual Signature Forum of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW)

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London book launch

A New Communal Model

The Impossibilities of Production in New Media

Tarek Khoury

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,...

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...

New media has played a role in artistic practices, activism and social change for a long time, and we are increasingly seeing artists using and manipulating images from mainstream media and circulating them online to elucidate political causes.

Digitised media in the last decade has undoubtedly been propelled by the enormous speed of new technology and spontaneous platforms for rights, defined by Hakim Bey as 'Temporary Autonomous Zones' and 'network guerrillas' by Ozgur Uckan. Consequently, despite the mediated content of the mainstream media, social media sites have emerged...

Using new media tools and technologies available today has become standard practice for a range of activities; it's become a source of educational content and entertainment, as well as a means of communicating from conflict zones or even from the comfort of our homes. New media technologies available on smart...

Artists have for some time been using new media to investigate and question their mainstream socio-political environments. In Arab countries, the revolutions that took place are a direct expression of this process's shift from the art community to the mass, from the artist to the public. It was a mutation...

When we talk about media, whether we consider them old or new, and critical practices, whether we label them as artistic, activist or hybrid, we would do well to look at issues of embodiment, and where virtual presence and physical presence intersects. The Arab uprisings have shown that no matter...

New media's role as an agent for social change in the MENA region has been somewhat sensationalised by mainstream media in referring to recent incidents of unrest as 'Facebook' or 'Twitter revolutions'. Whether used for the purpose of social exchange or as part of an artistic practice, real-time communication and...

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...

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Critical reflections on Ibraaz publications

Dream City in Tunis

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Özgür Uçkan and Vasif Kortun in conversation with Basak Senova

Aikaterini Gegisian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

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

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The Cairo Seminar in Alexandria, dOCUMENTA (13)

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An Artist-Run Gallery Space in Cairo

Questions to be addressed

Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

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

The role of the archive in critical and culturally located art histories

A Slavs and Tatars Panel Discussion at Art Space Pythagorion

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The second meeting of Maghreb des Arts

A Report on Future City

Future Imperfect, A Symposium

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Aimee Dawson

09–11 May, Museé National du Bardo, Tunis

Decolonizing Architecture at Tate Modern

Erriadh is the Home of the ‘Street’

Edge of Arabia Launches Culturunners

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Reema Salha Fadda

Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

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Online exhibition catalogue

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Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

Gregory Sholette at Home Workspace Program

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

William Wells in conversation at Serpentine Galleries

A Report from the AUC

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

The Art for Tomorrow Conference 2016 in Doha

On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’

The 2016 March Meeting

Two Exhibitions on the Armenian Legacy in Anatolia

A Report from Cologne

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

At the Salzburger Kunstverein

Edited by Anthony Downey (Sternberg Press, 2016)

Larissa Sansour

The Public and Intimate Lives of Arabic Calligraphy

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Basim Magdy: On Science Fiction

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At Aicon Gallery, New York

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.

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...

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

The Sharjah Art Foundation's 2014 March Meeting

Aikaterini Gegisian

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg

A Video Game Mausoleum for Bashar al-Assad

Tahrir Archives

Working with archives is a relatively new development, only recently have artists and institutions had access to archives. In the Middle East in general, the idea of the archive and of history is very vague. Even the idea of archiving, of having an institution that holds an archive, is new.

Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss

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

Basim Magdy at Newman Popiashvili

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the word 'demand' seems to be the key word of the poll. In relation to a 'globalised cultural economy' it refers to the core term of economics that is used to rationalise the development of prices. Talking about 'demands of news media, journalism, cultural...

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.

The globalisation of the modern art world is a fact. The rise of new economic powers has led to a shift in the balance of power in the art world as well. No longer is there one centre. Instead, we are faced with a mosaic of centres spread around the...

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...

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The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

'Networks have no inside, only radiating connectors. They are all edges. They provide connections but no structure. One does not reside in a network, but rather moves to other points through the edges'. Bruno Latour, 'Some Experiments in Art and Politics', e-flux journal, 03/2011. With the benefit of hindsight, one...

Shining a spotlight on something in order to 'make it visible' is a task indeed. It does not only entail personal and professional risk but also demands courage and responsibility. The ethics of monstration (on behalf of those whose intention is precisely that - to make sense of vision, to...

Selçuk Artut. Courtesy of the artist.

A video by Ali Cherri.

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...

Can the subaltern tweet? asked Lisa Nakamura, in response to the formulation 'social media caused the Arab Spring'. If Spivak famously deconstructed the promotion of democracy by supremacist means, Nakamura and others subsequently dismantled the digital orientalism latent in rhetoric suggesting that a US twittersphere galvanised Arab revolutionaries against Arab...

The state of the Internet, or more specifically, the state of 'online surfing' is similar to that of dreaming; things leach into each other according to a logic that does not belong to us and cannot be correlated to our chronological time; images are constantly morphing into ghosts of other...

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...

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...

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...

News from the Arab World reaches western audiences on a daily basis. The various analogue and online formats of media – TV, radio, newspapers, and blogs – are extensively reporting on the events in this region. In Berlin, and certainly elsewhere in Europe, cultural institutions and festivals reacted very quickly...

Dar al-Ma'mûn is a new arts centre and residency for artists and translators outside of Marrakech. The questions of public space and of civil society have been with us since the beginning, as we were trying to avoid creating a mere retreat for artists, a luxurious ivory tower for intellectuals...

It is so difficult to imagine the people in the world now getting their cultural resources without a visual component, especially in the Arab world where the photograph is becoming increasingly dominant in the media. For example, most newspapers and Arabic magazines are giving much more space to photographs, considering...

The scale of the resistance among the people of the MENA region in the last year will remain an example in contemporary history. This resistance expresses a desire to build new ground and another social entity, which up till now has been latent. The clear desire is to build a...

Middle Eastern culture, which is Islamic and mainly very conservative, is in the process of redefining its interpretation of, and relationship to, visual culture. The role of contemporary art in the Middle East is different to that in many parts of world. Design, advertising, media, performance, photography, conceptual art, new...

The Middle East is not a safe place. It is either the source of news, or the witness of strange incidents. Its streets and cities are under the threat of suicidal terrorists and of tribal religious wars. The Middle East is unpredictable: its aging dictators fall overnight, its borders have...

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah

O Whale, Don't Swallow Our Moon: 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

Sea of Stories: Beirut

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

Partner institutions

Encounters Programme

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Reflections: Ala Younis Adania Shibli

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Introduction: Qi2016 Curatorial Team

Responses

Acknowledgements

ARC.HIVE (2006–present): Adham Hafez

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

Shirin Neshat

Lina Lazaar

A roundtable discussion

Ismaïl Bahri in conversation with Silke Schmickl

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

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Jack Persekian in conversation with Basak Senova

Christine Tohme 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

Ala Ebtekar in conversation with Sara Raza

Tom Bogaert in conversation with Anthony Downey

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Guy Mannes-Abbott in conversation with Sheyma Buali

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

Diana Al-Hadid in Conversation with Fawz Kabra

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

Heiko Lange in conversation with Amira Gad

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Pascal Hachem in conversation with Nour K Sacranie

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

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

Visualizing Palestine in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jeremy Hutchison in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Tamara Chalabi, Reem Shather-Kubba, and Jonathan Watkins in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Marie-Monique Steckel in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Chapter 7: Fabric

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 4: Measures

Chapter 3: Intervals

Chapter 2: Details

A Question: Jalal Toufic

Introduction: Basak Senova

A View from the City: Tina Sherwell

Basma Alsharif: We Began by Measuring Distance

Jumana Emil Abboud: A Happy Ending, Part II

Visitations: When aurality loses site* by Rayya Badran

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

Curator's Introduction

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

Two Gunshots Fired at the Installation Dialogue : Xiao Lu

I March In The Parade Of Liberty But As Long As I Love You I'm Not Free: Sharon Hayes

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

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Lidia Al-Qattan in conversation with Monira Al Qadiri

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Magdi Mostafa in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Rasha Salti in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Programme / Schedule

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Introduction

Farah Al-Nakib in conversation with Todd Reisz

Closing Remarks

Meriem Bennani in conversation with Myriam Ben Salah

Video documentation: Day 2

Video documentation: Day 1

Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation with Sarah Abu Abdallah

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

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

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Sussan Deyhim in conversation with Sheyma Buali

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

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Caveh Zahedi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Robin Kahn in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Adelita Husni-Bey in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

Mounira al Solh in conversation with Nat Muller

Hiwa K in conversation with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

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

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

Mohanad Yaqubi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Eric Van Hove in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Sumesh Sharma in conversation with Amanprit Sandhu

Anthony Downey and Beatrix Ruf in conversation with Slavs and Tatars

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

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

Mai Elwakil in conversation with Daniella Rose King

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi

Tarek Atoui in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ahd in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Burak Arıkan in conversation with Basak Senova

Hisham Al-Madhloum in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Eungie Joo in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Raed Yassin in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Discussing arts infrastructure in Tehran

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza

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

Joe Namy in conversation with Garine Aivazian

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

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

Wael Shawky in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Ayşe Erkmen in conversation with Basak Senova

Georgia Kotretsos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Larissa Sansour in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Carole Alfarah in conversation with María Gómez López

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

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

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

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part II

Younes Bouadi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Tarek Abou El Fetouh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad

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

Nora Razian, Nataša Petrešin Bachelez, and Angela Harutyunyan in conversation, with a contribution from Natasha Gasparian

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

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

Hamza Halloubi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Anthony Downey: Introduction to 'Future Imperfect'

Alia Rayyan: Recounting the Past, Present and Future

Hussam al-Saray: in conversation with Ala Younis | A Cultural Encyclopaedia of Iraq

Wided Rihana Khadraoui: Digitalizing Social Change through Cultural Institutions in Saudi Arabia

Nile Sunset Annex: Plotting in Egypt: Art People

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

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

Coline Milliard

Sophia Al-Maria: On Automobiles

Guy Mannes-Abbott: On Drones

Ibraaz Talks: Wafaa Bilal

Trevor Paglen: Aesthetics

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler: Social Imagination

Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Listening

Basim Magdy & Stephanie Bailey: Collective Memory

Burak Arikan & Başak Şenova: Network Data

Live

Hans Ulrich Obrist: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Shumon Basar: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Todd Reisz: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Okwui Enwezor: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Farah Al-Nakib: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Adam Szymczyk: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

John Akomfrah: in conversation with Anthony Downey

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

Ibn Khaldun’s The Muqadimmah

Crisis The End of Pearling in the Gulf (Qatar)

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

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

Fayçal Baghriche

Aaron Cezar, Delfina Foundation

Wael Shawky

Lin Yilin

Guy Mannes-Abbott: Writer

Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints

Wafaa Bilal

Hiwa K.

Fayçal Baghriche

Nancy Atakan

Işıl Eğrikavuk

The Future Was ZZZZZZZZ

The Future Was a Roundabout

The Future Was Global/Art/Forum

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A Video Installation

Khaled Kaddal

Christodoulos Panayiotou

Zoukak Theatre Company

Shirin Neshat

Louis Henderson

Nat Muller

Kim Beamish

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

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

Debra Levine: Toward A Common Satisfaction of Needs

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

Murtaza Vali: 'Arresting Flows, Stacking Forms'

A web series by Oreet Ashery

The Outsider

Kauther

Kazın Ayağı : (Actually, that's not the case )

Mario Rizzi

A Hero Never Dies: Wissam Charaf

Short Wave/Long Wave: Vartan Avakian

Beau Geste: Yto Barrada

Paris Without a Sea: Mounira Al Solh

Jim Quilty

Saad

Water: Hamed Sahihi

A tribute by Gelareh Kiazand

Heba Y. Amin

Sama Alshaibi

Farah Saleh

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain

Nation Estate

A Space Exodus

Larissa Sansour

Ahd

Ammar Al-Beik

Bouchra Khalili

Filipa César and Louis Henderson

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

Basir Mahmood

Mohamed Diab

Mithkal Alzghair

A Brief History of the Shoura Council So Far: February 2015

Prayer of Fear: September 2013

Council presents: The Against Nature Journal

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Trace Environments: Sovereignty, toxicity and the littoral

Contour Biennale 8 / DAI Roaming Assembly #12

Amer AlBarzawi

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Cevdet Erek in conversation with Başak Şenova

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

Edited by Anthony Downey (Sternberg Press, 2016)

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Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Reema Salha Fadda

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Notes on a film by Kamal Aljafari

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

Lizzy Collier

Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Invisible Architecture in Rana ElNemr’s Streams of Synonyms

Yazan Ashqar

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun

Wael Shawky at the Fondazione Merz

Negative Ecstasy at Dirimart, Istanbul

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938–1948) at the Centre Pompidou

Natasha Marie Llorens

Nil Yalter at ARTER, Istanbul

Katia Kameli at the Mosaic Rooms

Closing Remarks

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Hassan Khan at Beirut Art Center

Inspired by calligraphy

Hamid Dabashi

Khalid Abdalla

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

Reflections on Reflections

Edmund Clark at the Imperial War Museum, London

The Sketches of Mahmoud Al Rifai at FADA 317

Etel Adnan at Serpentine Galleries

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Rayyane Tabet at Museo Marino Marini

The Artist as Awakener at AUB

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

At Ab Anbar Gallery

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

Participatory Art in the Middle East

Nicola Baird

The 37th EVA International

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

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

What are the urgent questions affecting cultural production in Turkey? I am writing from the perspective of Turkey, rather than the perspective of the Middle East and North Africa in general...

The varying political, cultural and economic circumstances of the participants of Art Dubai 2016, Design Days and the March Meeting, merit further consideration, as it is the differences among them that highlight the current constraints and opportunities for cultural production in the region.

To answer this question I propose an excerpt from a text in progress called 'Art and Garbage'. This piece is intended to look into the relation between urgent social problems – in this case the ongoing garbage crisis in Lebanon – and contemporary art.

There is never a neutral position for critique, but there certainly ought to be the practice of critique. And that is precisely the element that is missing in top-down formation of the art scene in West Asia and North Africa, and perhaps in the rest of the non-western art scene.

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.

Anthony Downey

On Walking and Crawling

Tarek Al-Ghoussein at Galerie Brigitte Schenk

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Earshot by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Portikus, Frankfurt

KVS Theater in Brussels

Grey Noise Gallery

Tehran’s Self-portrait

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Choreographing Spaces of Gesticulation

Six Short Stories on Arabic Voice Acting

Rana Hamadeh at The Showroom, London

Samah Hijawi

The Little Deaths of Christodoulos Panayiotou

Genealogy of a Territory at MuCEM, Marseille

Green Art Gallery

Ahmad Makia

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

An Ode to Performing Subjectivity in Research

Walead Beshty at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, James B Duke House

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

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

Jumana Manna at Chisenhale Gallery, London

The Subversive Feminine

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

The Unspoken Battle of Self-Censorship

The 13th Biennale de Lyon

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

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

A Review of the 56th Venice Biennale

Maraya Art Centre

'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...'

Adel Abidin presents Subway Scene (2015).

'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...'

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Interventions as Performative Gestures For Political Engagement in Jordan

Practice, Performance, Politics

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

'Do not pollute others' hearing with shameful sounds...'

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

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

Franco Berardi

Lara Khaldi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

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

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

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Natasha Ginwala

Notes on a Giant Implosion

Monira Al Qadiri

Lantian Xie at Grey Noise

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

Five Stages of an Artist Residency

Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

On the Work of Basma Alsharif

Portrait of a Salafi en abyme in the Cyber World

Anthony Downey

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

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

This research-based response marks the beginning of a collaborative project undertaken by Clare Davies and Nida Ghouse that considers histories of artistic production in relation to the concept of metanoia.

Instead of focusing on the location of the 'MENA' in the context of the Global South, I will speak from the perspective of how such a location is of relevance to South Asia (which will be excusable, I hope, since 'MENA' is often compounded with 'SA' to form MENASA in...

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.

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 group of paintings is inspired by 'momentary images' or more accurately frozen moments taken from the contemporary cityscape of Egypt, as well as from personal records; old photographs found in family albums.

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.

A Provocation to the Question

Conflicting Narratives and the Invention of Geographies

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

An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf

Tina Sherwell

Burak Delier

A Recourse to the Past

Building Institutions Through Practice

A Yemeni Art History

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Art and Culture Beyond Institutions in Amman