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Wafaa Bilal in conversation with Sara Raza

Two Exhibitions on the Armenian Legacy in Anatolia

A Report from Cologne

Katia Kameli at the Mosaic Rooms

Samah Hijawi

A Yemeni Art History

Or, Severing History From the Person

Mohamed Abdelkarim

Sea of Stories: Beirut

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Carole Alfarah in conversation with María Gómez López

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

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

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,...

As a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle Eastern art, I am concerned with the urgent questions facing cultural production as well as those facing histories of cultural production. My response below reflects that concern.

Six Short Stories on Arabic Voice Acting

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.

Shadi Habib Allah

When family members die they take their memories, facts and figures with them. Their stories, as well as their lies and omissions, become harder to track after they've gone. They leave behind mountains of material , with few entry points. If you dare to enter, you will find yourself alone...

Critical reflections on Ibraaz publications

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

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

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Shezad Dawood in conversation with Sara Raza

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Christine Tohme in conversation with Anthony Downey

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Guy Mannes-Abbott in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Diana Al-Hadid in Conversation with Fawz Kabra

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Chapter 1: Intensities

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

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

Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Marie-Monique Steckel in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Chapter 6: Writing

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 4: Measures

Chapter 3: Intervals

Chapter 2: Details

A View from the City: Tina Sherwell

Acknowledgements

Jumana Emil Abboud: A Happy Ending, Part II

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

Curator's Introduction

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with Ala Younis

End of War in Iraq: The Yes Men and Steve Lambert

Bent Jbeil: Wael Shawky

OLGA'S NOTES, all those restless bodies: Marwa Arsanios

A Tress of Hair: Doa Aly

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Rasha Salti in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Online exhibition catalogue

Farah Al-Nakib in conversation with Todd Reisz

Closing Remarks

Meriem Bennani in conversation with Myriam Ben Salah

Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation with Sarah Abu Abdallah

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

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

Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Online exhibition catalogue

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

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

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Adelita Husni-Bey in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lawrence Abu Hamdan in conversation with Anthony Downey

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

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Mohanad Yaqubi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Eric Van Hove in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra

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

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

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Jonas Staal in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ahd in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Mona Marzouk in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Rana Hamadeh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

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

Wael Shawky in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

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

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

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

Lamia Joreige in conversation with Anthony Downey

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

Héla Ammar in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

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

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

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

Ibraaz

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Fawz Kabra

Coline Milliard

Nour K Sacranie

Ibraaz

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Sheyma Buali

Malu Halasa

Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

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

Ibraaz

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

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Aimee Dawson

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Reema Salha Fadda

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Online exhibition catalogue

Online exhibition catalogue

Ibraaz

Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

Ibraaz

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A Report from the AUC

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

Ibraaz

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Ibraaz

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On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’

At the Salzburger Kunstverein

Aimee Dawson

Guy Mannes-Abbott: On Drones

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Language Arts at The Third Line

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

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)

Aaron Cezar, Delfina Foundation

Wael Shawky

Doa Aly

Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints

Dictaphone group

Wafaa Bilal

Hiwa K.

Fayçal Baghriche

Taysir Batniji: Ma Merè, David et Moi (2012)

Ibraaz

Sondos Shabayek

Murtaza Vali: 'Arresting Flows, Stacking Forms'

Vikram Divecha

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

A tribute by Gelareh Kiazand

Sama Alshaibi

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

Basir Mahmood

Trace Environments: Sovereignty, toxicity and the littoral

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2014)

Edited by Anthony Downey (Walther König Verlag, 2017)

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

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On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Reema Salha Fadda

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Notes on a film by Kamal Aljafari

Lizzy Collier

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun

Wael Shawky at the Fondazione Merz

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

Nil Yalter at ARTER, Istanbul

Closing Remarks

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

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

Edmund Clark at the Imperial War Museum, London

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Rayyane Tabet at Museo Marino Marini

Lara Baladi

At Aicon Gallery, New York

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

Participatory Art in the Middle East

The 37th EVA International

On Assumption and Authority

Forests, Freaks and Performativity

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.

Anthony Downey

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

The Little Deaths of Christodoulos Panayiotou

Green Art Gallery

Ahmad Makia

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

An Ode to Performing Subjectivity in Research

The performative in the work of Hassan Khan

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

The Unspoken Battle of Self-Censorship

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

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

Maraya Art Centre

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Practice, Performance, Politics

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

Lara Khaldi

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

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Natasha Ginwala

Notes on a Giant Implosion

Lantian Xie at Grey Noise

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

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

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

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.

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

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

Building Institutions Through Practice

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Art and Culture Beyond Institutions in Amman

From the Intimate to the World

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

Global Art Forum 8 at Katara Art Center

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

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

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

What Does It Mean to Be Building a Library in Iraq?

'The future of arts looks promising, but it also risks looking stale if we're not too careful. I will concentrate here on what I think are important considerations in the shaping of spaces of encounter.'

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

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

Slavs and Tatars at The Third Line

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Israel's National Photography Archives as a Case Study

Malak Helmy and Sophia Al Maria

Santiago Mostyn

Yogesh Barve & Clark House Initiative

Mounira Al Solh

Rosana Palazyan

Uriel Orlow

Isak Berbic

Azin Feizabadi

Iman Issa

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)

Raed Yassin

Adelita Husni-Bey

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

Dream Homes and Community-building

A Story in Parts

Transition, a photographic series by Myriam Abdelaziz

Isak Berbic

A Project by Saba Innab

Marwa Arsanios

On Presidents & Superheroes

Dalia Khamissy

Francesco Jodice

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

The Society of False Witnesses

Basma Alsharif

Amira Hanafi

Tahrir Archives

Dena Al-Adeeb

Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind

Sohrab Kashani

Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi

Burak Delier

...one of the main problems with modernity in the Arab World is the lack of credibility, criticality and scrutiny in understanding, presenting, and evaluating its nature and objects.

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...

The Search for 'Nurafkan'

On Shuruq Harb's The Keeper

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

The Recordings of the Cosmopolitan

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

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

Waterside Contemporary

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

The Encyclopedic Palace

Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Kuwait’s National Works at the 55th Venice Biennale

Amy Charlesworth

Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing

Ibraaz Platform 005 Editorial

What if Rani al Rajji and Michel De Certeau met in Beirut?

Looking for Palestine in the Jordanian Music Scene

An Exhibition between Cairo and London

Basim Magdy at Newman Popiashvili

The Problem of Nationality

Refraction: Moving Images on Palestine at P21 Gallery

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

The excited chatter about unrest and uprisings in the western world has focused particularly on a number of countries in North Africa and in what we here refer to as the Middle East (meaning anything between eighteen to thirty-eight countries according to Wikipedia). In the UK, we have received a...

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 1990s, it would have been difficult to find an artist in Egypt who thought that any of their contemporaries would sell their work at international auction and for thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars at that. Artists were busy negotiating other, more immediately local, elements of a...

Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

Artistic Practice from Tirana to Tangier

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

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

On the Memory of a Memorial

Jens Maier-Rothe

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

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

Theatre As a Tool of Empowerment

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

'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...

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

Anthony Downey

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

Cultural Institutions, Urban Development, and Regional Cinema in the Gulf Today

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,...

Mirene Arsanios

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...

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...

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...

Walking in the Darkness of a Promised Light

The Enemy Inside Me

When we began our research into the current art landscape of the Middle East, we noticed various reasons why the bonds between regional art communities are weakened. Prevailing art discourses are largely externally driven; the way in which art is circulated, marketed and publicised doesn't respond in any significant way...

There are two things we need to know. Firstly, we need to know what we know, that is, how much or how little? Secondly, we need to know who 'we' are in this context. Obviously, there is a different 'we' at stake, whether inside or outside the region, as well...

One needs to be careful with the concept of regions as geographical entities. Such an understanding is only valuable if it takes into account the way these regions relate to their neighbours, as frontiers are still too often frontiers of misunderstanding. The Middle East, like North Africa or the so-called...

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...

Mark Westmoreland

The political and cultural density of the Middle East is as diverse, rich and complex as that of Central Europe with which it shares a history of struggle about disputed borders, clashing ideologies and religious turmoil. The fact that the term by which the region is commonly identified is a...

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