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A Coup or a Continuation of the Revolution?: July 2013

Martyrs of the Egyptian Revolution: December 2011

WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif

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

Prayer of Fear: September 2013

The People Demand the Fall of the Regime: January 2012

The Maspero Massacre: October 2011

Omar Robert Hamilton

Lara Baladi

33rpm and a Few Seconds by Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh

Naira Antoun

Amira Hanafi

What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011

Rachida Triki

Fawz Kabra

Decolonizing Architecture at Tate Modern

Contemporary Artistic Practice in Iran at a Revolutionary Moment

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

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

Aimee Dawson

Mohamed Diab

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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Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg

An Image of a Revolution

Transition, a photographic series by Myriam Abdelaziz

Khaled Hafez

Tahrir Archives

The conceptual turn of the 1970s gave full legitimacy to queries into the document and the archive. Issues of memory become the favourite material of contemporary artists. Yet, in Tunisia, we missed the conceptual turn of the 1970s – it took us until the start of the revolution in 2011...

Repatriation of Iraq's Looted Heritage under International and Domestic Law and Practice

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

Iraq and Palestine at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Creative Time Reports

Jens Maier-Rothe

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...

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...

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...

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...

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

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...

Joe Khalil

I believe that recent events and revolutions in the Middle East prove that getting acquainted with the region is more complicated than has been conveyed on the global scene until now. Behind a curtain of traditions, Middle Eastern people are dealing with the passion of globalization. My comments may only...

History repeats itself – this line used across the disciplines is a proven liturgy to contemporary compendiums. When you detail the visual narratives, the region becomes the medium designed to mark your place in history. Whether in the Stone Age or the Digital Age, information is your power, and revolution...

نصوص تقاطع الأعمال الفنّيّة

مدن 5 | غزة، باللون الأحمر

"الأيدي العائدة | حول معرض "يا حوت لا توكل قمرنا

"اسم الجدّة | عن العمل الفوتوغرافي "مراية تيتا" لرندة شعث، من معرض "أهل البحر

متمردون بالمصادفة، سنوات لا ترحم" عن "العودة" غير المألوفة في المشهد الفلسطيني"

لما شتَّت الدنيا سمك

عودة" ليلية يقودها الحمام"

آثار حيَّة | على الطريق من النقب إلى كانبيرا

Edited by Anthony Downey & Lina Lazaar (Ibraaz Publishing, 2011)

Edited by Anthony Downey (jrp|ringier, 2015)

A tool-guide by Temporary. Art. Platform. (T.A.P.) with Nayla Geagea

Critical reflections on Ibraaz publications

Publications كتابة هذا البحر 010 / 31 August 2017 تمت كتابة هذه النصوص بأعقاب قلنديا الدولي 2016 نسخة 'هذا البحر لي'، وفي إطار مساق 'الكتابة مع الصور' وهو مساق تجريبي بادر إليه برنامج الثقافة والفنون في مؤسسة عبد المحسن القطَّان وتم تنظيمه بشراكة المتحف الفلسطيني وجمعية الثقافة العربية، ورواق، ومركز...

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Gaza

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

This Sea is Mine: Gaza

Sea of Stories: Beirut

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

After Thoughts: Shuruq Harb

Programme Downloads

Acknowledgements

Partner institutions

Encounters Programme

Bethlehem

Amman

London

Ramallah & Al-Bireh

Jerusalem

Haifa

Gaza

Beirut

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Reflections: Ala Younis Adania Shibli

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Introduction: Qi2016 Curatorial Team

Responses

Acknowledgements

Installation Views

ARC.HIVE (2006–present): Adham Hafez

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

Shirin Neshat

Installation views

A roundtable discussion

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Adonis in conversation with Laura Allsop

Nada Sehnaoui in conversation with Laura Allsop

Michket Krifa in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Tom Bogaert in conversation with Anthony Downey

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Chapter 1: Intensities

Hassan Khan in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Jasmina Metwaly in conversation with Angela Harutyunyan

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Wafaa Bilal in conversation with Sara Raza

Heiko Lange in conversation with Amira Gad

Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

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

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Marie-Monique Steckel in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Downloadable Exhibition Guide

Fractures: Children's Activity Book

Chapter 7: Fabric

Chapter 6: Writing

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 4: Measures

Chapter 3: Intervals

Chapter 2: Details

A Question: Jalal Toufic

Editor's Foreword: Anthony Downey

Preface: Jack Persekian

Introduction: Basak Senova

Online exhibition catalogue

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

Two Gunshots Fired at the Installation Dialogue : Xiao Lu

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

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Magdi Mostafa in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Programme / Schedule

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Introduction

Online exhibition catalogue

Closing Remarks

Online Programme

Video documentation: Day 2

Video documentation: Day 1

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Randa Mirza in conversation with Amira Gad

Online exhibition catalogue

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Sussan Deyhim in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

Hiwa K in conversation with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf

Online exhibition catalogue

Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Farah Saleh in conversation with Marianna Liosi

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Anthony Downey

Mohanad Yaqubi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

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

Jonas Staal in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Köken Ergun in conversation with Omar Kholeif

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

Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

Rana Hamadeh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Wael Shawky in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

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

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Kim Beamish in conversation with Sam Bowker

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

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

Héla Ammar in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

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

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

Nile Sunset Annex: Plotting in Egypt: Art People

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

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Amira Gad

Ibraaz

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

Nour K Sacranie

Ibraaz

Coline Milliard

Charlotte Bank

Ibraaz

The Cairo Seminar in Alexandria, dOCUMENTA (13)

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Malu Halasa

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

Ibraaz

An Artist-Run Gallery Space in Cairo

Ibraaz

Ibraaz in partnership with Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art

Ibraaz

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

Ibraaz

Future Imperfect, A Symposium

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Erriadh is the Home of the ‘Street’

Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

William Wells in conversation at Serpentine Galleries

Ibraaz

A Report from the AUC

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’

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

Aimee Dawson

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Language Arts at The Third Line

Shiva Balaghi: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Okwui Enwezor: in conversation with Anthony Downey

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

Ibn Khaldun’s The Muqadimmah

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

Nick Denes: Researcher

Hiwa K.

Katia Kameli: Untitled (2011)

Seth Ayyaz

Doa Aly

Zoukak Theatre Company

Shirin Neshat

Sondos Shabayek

Louis Henderson

Kim Beamish

Kauther

Jim Quilty

Ammar Al-Beik

Mithkal Alzghair

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2014)

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2015)

Edited by Anthony Downey (Walther König Verlag, 2017)

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

Edited by Anthony Downey (Sternberg Press, 2016)

Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun

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

Natasha Marie Llorens

Closing Remarks

Inspired by calligraphy

Khalid Abdalla

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Sophia Al-Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

At Ab Anbar Gallery

Rozemin Keshvani

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

Participatory Art in the Middle East

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

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.

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Tehran’s Self-portrait

Choreographing Spaces of Gesticulation

Ahmad Makia

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

The Unspoken Battle of Self-Censorship

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

Lara Khaldi

'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

Notes on a Giant Implosion

Five Stages of an Artist Residency

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

On the Work of Basma Alsharif

Portrait of a Salafi en abyme in the Cyber World

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

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

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.

In the years that followed the destruction of the Berlin Wall, which triggered the rise of post-colonial studies, the definition of the term 'the Global South' has changed dramatically.

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

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

Burak Delier

A Recourse to the Past

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

Building Institutions Through Practice

A Yemeni Art History

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Re-routing Institutional Critique

From the Intimate to the World

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

Slavs and Tatars at The Third Line

Georgia Kotretsos: SPRING CLEANING and KARFI in Rabat

A Review

Almagul Menlibayeva

Abdullah Al-Mutairi

Sarah Abu Abdallah

Malak Helmy and Sophia Al Maria

Oreet Ashery

(The Differences Between The Parts Are The Subject of The Composition)

Eric Baudelaire

Santiago Mostyn

Taus Makhacheva

Malak Helmy

Yogesh Barve & Clark House Initiative

Nikolaj Larsen

Simohammed Fettaka & Basak Senova

Basma Alsharif

Mounira Al Solh

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan

Rosana Palazyan

Ariel Hassan

Youmna Chlala

Meriç Algün Ringborg

Uriel Orlow

Leung Chi Wo

Aikaterini Gegisian

Campus in Camps and Grupo Contrafilé

Shezad Dawood

Mohamed Fariji

Isak Berbic

Caline Aoun

Mohamed Abdelkarim

Mahmoud Khaled

Azin Feizabadi

Monira Al Qadiri

Iman Issa

Jasmina Metwaly

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

Medrar .TV

Adelita Husni-Bey

Wafaa Bilal at Maraya Art Park, Sharjah

Setareh Shahbazi

Notes from three spaces in which the law resounds

An online archive by Lucien Samaha

A project by Ali Cherri

A project by Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

A project by Maha Maamoun

A project by Katia Kameli

The Circus (2)

A Story of an Exhibition

On the Rooftop

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

Sophia Al-Maria

Raed Yassin

Lasse Lau

Cynthia Zaven

Adelita Husni-Bey

A Project by Robin Kahn

A Video Game Mausoleum for Bashar al-Assad

Documenting the Backlash

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

Elevator Advertisements

Mahmoud Khaled

Makan

Dream Homes and Community-building

Roy Samaha

Yousef Moscatello

A Story in Parts

A project by Tom Bogaert for Ibraaz

Continuing Traditions of Satire, Art and the Struggle for Freedom in Syria

A project by Yousef Moscatello

A project by Fayçal Baghriche

A Project by Anahita Razmi

Two Projects by Sinisa Vlajkovic

Seher Shah's Recent Drawings

Isak Berbic

A Project by Saba Innab

A Project by Dictaphone Group

A Mother's Tongue, On Ahmad Ghossein's film My Father is Still a Communist

A Libyan Diary (Part III) - December 2011

A Libyan Diary (Part II) - November 2011

Mustapha Benfodil

Lina Khatib

Nikolaj Larsen

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Marwa Arsanios

Batroun Projects

On Presidents & Superheroes

Dalia Khamissy

Francesco Jodice

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,...

Mahmoud Bakhshi

A project by Benji Boyadgian

Shadi Habib Allah

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Zamir Suleymanov

The Society of False Witnesses

Basma Alsharif

Morehshin Allahyari

Kamal Aljafari

Navine G. Khan-Dossos

Setareh Shahbazi

On Silence and Noise in Times of Crisis

Dena Al-Adeeb

Ahmed Badry

Maya Chami

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

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

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

Zoukak Theatre Company

Sohrab Kashani

Meriem Bennani

Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi

An Online Performance

Seth Ayyaz

Burak Delier

Urok Shirhan

Adham Faramawy

Hassan Khan

Hasan Hujairi

Joe Namy

Helene Kazan

Samah Hijawi

Through art practices, particularly in this region, the artist might slip into this muddy area, which is mostly based on fetishes and collective political memory and which somehow stands on the most influential component of media archive. It is not necessarily only that which is visible and legible, but more...

The Search for 'Nurafkan'

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

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'

An I for an Eye and Death of a Cameraman

The 4th Thessaloniki Biennale

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss

Tinkerings on the Instable Present Tense

Amy Charlesworth

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

Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers

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

An Exhibition between Cairo and London

Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi at Chisenhale Gallery

Basim Magdy at Newman Popiashvili

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

Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

Artistic Practices, Collective Action and Civil Society in Tunisia

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

On the Memory of a Memorial

A New Communal Model

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

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

The Impossibilities of Production in New Media

Tarek Khoury

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

Theatre As a Tool of Empowerment

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

Foundland

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...

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...

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...

Anthony Downey

Perceptions of Occupation and Control in Cyprus

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...

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...

By bicycle, he travels the roads and the districts searching for an answer to his many questions. He is a man, Tunisian, Arab, Berber and a native with roots in the Maghreb, Africa, the Middle East ... He is of this Earth and these oceans.

Cardboards are leaned against a wall in a street. They form a peculiar assemblage one can identify as makeshift shelters. Fashioned out of the detritus of consumer society, the cardboards have become facades. They conceal women who were probably repudiated by their families. One of them emerges from her 'house'...

Raymond Baker

Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs

For so many decades the region of MENA has been synonymous with religious extremism, oppression of women, dictatorial regimes and, at varying levels, high rates of illiteracy and backwardness. In the last decade of the twentieth century the region has seen various political tumults including Islamic terrorism and its war...

The question 'What do we need to know about the MENA region today?' triggered a series of questions from my part. My contribution will be these questions; the aim is to start a game of Q&Q (instead of a Q&A) with no rules and no time limits. Who is this...

This question is like a trap: 'what do we need to know about the MENA region today?' It feels like a trap, or a puzzle, rather than like a question because it was asked with no explanations. The only indication I had was that the answer should not exceed 200...

When initially presented with the task of summing up the nearly two-dozen nations that are lumped together under this peculiar acronym, my immediate impulse was to emphasize that it is impossible to describe such a vast region in less than 200 words. Even the few commonalities that do exist among...

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...

Mark Westmoreland

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation