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Dia Azzawi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Le Dessous des Ratures (Beneath the Crossings Out)

Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Mona Marzouk in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Vikram Divecha at Tashkeel

The Artist as Awakener at AUB

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

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.

Tina Sherwell

A Yemeni Art History

Mahmoud Khaled

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

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...

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah

Pattern Recognition: Ramallah

RE/viewing Jerusalem #2 – REturn: Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Show VIII 'Before and After Origins': Jerusalem

This Sea is Mine: Amman

This Sea is Mine: Gaza

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

Partner institutions

Reflections: Ala Younis Adania Shibli

Responses

A roundtable discussion

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Shezad Dawood in conversation with Sara Raza

Nada Sehnaoui in conversation with Laura Allsop

Driss Ouadahi in conversation with Rachida Triki

Ala Ebtekar in conversation with Sara Raza

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jeanno Gaussi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

Diana Al-Hadid in Conversation with Fawz Kabra

Chapter 1: Intensities

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jasmina Metwaly in conversation with Angela Harutyunyan

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Simone Fattal in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Marie-Monique Steckel in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Chapter 3: Intervals

Chapter 2: Details

A Question: Jalal Toufic

Preface: Jack Persekian

Samah Hijawi: Paradise Series

Curator's Introduction

Hair and Milk Bottle: Hassan Sharif

Two Gunshots Fired at the Installation Dialogue : Xiao Lu

A Tress of Hair: Doa Aly

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

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Closing Remarks

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Taysir Batniji in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

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

Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Maya Zbib in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou

Walid Siti in conversation with Nat Muller

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Raed Yassin in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

Larissa Sansour in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Adelina von Fürstenberg in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

Younes Bouadi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Rifat Chadirji and Balkis Sharara in conversation with Amin Alsaden

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

Hamza Halloubi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

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

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

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

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

Charlotte Bank

Rachida Triki

Malu Halasa

Two Exhibitions in Paris

An Artist-Run Gallery Space in Cairo

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Reema Salha Fadda

Ibraaz

Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

A Report from the AUC

A Report from Cologne

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

Basim Magdy & Stephanie Bailey: Collective Memory

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

Crisis The End of Pearling in the Gulf (Qatar)

Hassan Sharif

The Future Was a Roundabout

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

Episode Twelve: Prayer, Aerialist

Episode Five: Archives, Avatars

Episode One

Trailer

A web series by Oreet Ashery

Paris Without a Sea: Mounira Al Solh

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

Reema Salha Fadda

Stephanie Bailey

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

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)

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

Nil Yalter at ARTER, Istanbul

Closing Remarks

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Inspired by calligraphy

Technology and Its Discontents

Reflections on Reflections

Etel Adnan at Serpentine Galleries

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

At Ab Anbar Gallery

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

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

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

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...

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

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

The Little Deaths of Christodoulos Panayiotou

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

The Subversive Feminine

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

A Review of the 56th Venice Biennale

'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...'

'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

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

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

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Notes on a Giant Implosion

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

Portrait of a Salafi en abyme in the Cyber World

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

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.

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

An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf

Burak Delier

A Recourse to the Past

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

Building Institutions Through Practice

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

Global Art Forum 8 at Katara Art Center

Mounira Al Solh at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

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

Cevdet Erek at Spike Island, Bristol

Mirene Arsanios

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

Haleh Redjaian at Arratia Beer

A Review

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

Oreet Ashery

Mounira Al Solh

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan

Ariel Hassan

Shezad Dawood

Caline Aoun

Azin Feizabadi

Jasmina Metwaly

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg

A Story of an Exhibition

Mahmoud Khaled

Naira Antoun

Transition, a photographic series by Myriam Abdelaziz

A Libyan Diary (Part II) - November 2011

Khaled Hafez

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Cecilia Andersson

Projects 'Graphic Witness' at Drawing Room, London 010 / 16 June 2017 When images of conflict and protest can be so easily captured on mobile devices, why translate them into graphic representations? How does the translation into graphic form change the act of witnessing, fabricate commentaries on instances of injustice,...

A project by Benji Boyadgian

Navine G. Khan-Dossos

Dena Al-Adeeb

Zoukak Theatre Company

An I for an Eye and Death of a Cameraman

The 4th Thessaloniki Biennale

Waterside Contemporary

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Meem Gallery, Dubai

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice

Profiles: Collecting Art in Lebanon at AUB Gallery, Lebanon

Iraq and Palestine at the 2013 Venice Biennale

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

Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing

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

Basim Magdy at Newman Popiashvili

A Talk and Screening by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa

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.

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.

Introduction

Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

Khalil Rabah: Pages 7, 8, 9 at e-flux

What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011

On the Memory of a Memorial

A New Communal Model

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

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 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...

An Introduction

Street art in Tunisia has appeared more and more since the early days of the 'revolution'. But this phenomenon was already there long before events took place. Certain activists – artists working in graphic and visual communication – invaded public spaces to express their grievances. They no longer wanted to...

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...

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

Anthony Downey

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

For a Polysemic Reading of Both City and Territory

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

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...

Walking in the Darkness of a Promised Light

Rachida Triki

Mayssa Fattouh

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...

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation