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Nicola Baird

Saloua Raouda Choucair, Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at Tate Modern

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

Future Imperfect, A Symposium

Decolonizing Architecture at Tate Modern

Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Pattern Recognition: Ramallah

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

Moments for Possibilities 'Air, Land and Sea': London

Sea of Stories: Beirut

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

Partner institutions

Encounters Programme

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Responses

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Lina Lazaar

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Shezad Dawood in conversation with Sara Raza

Adonis in conversation with Laura Allsop

Christine Tohme in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nada Sehnaoui in conversation with Laura Allsop

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

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Chapter 1: Intensities

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Anthony Downey

Wafaa Bilal in conversation with Sara Raza

Ala Younis in conversation with Liane Al-Ghusain

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Cynthia Zaven in conversation with Basak Senova

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Yuko Hasegawa in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo and Stephanie Bailey

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Chapter 7: Fabric

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 2: Details

Editor's Foreword: Anthony Downey

Visitations: When aurality loses site* by Rayya Badran

Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with Ala Younis

Chic Point Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints: Sharif Waked

Two Gunshots Fired at the Installation Dialogue : Xiao Lu

Variation on Discord and Divisions: Mona Hatoum

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

A Tress of Hair: Doa Aly

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Farah Al-Nakib in conversation with Todd Reisz

Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation with Sarah Abu Abdallah

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson

Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra

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

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Robin Kahn in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou

Walid Siti in conversation with Nat Muller

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Timo Nasseri in conversation with Laura Allsop

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Aikaterini Gegisian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Jonas Staal in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

November Paynter and Didem Pekün in conversation with Basak Senova

Köken Ergun in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Burak Arıkan in conversation with Basak Senova

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

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

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Larissa Sansour in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

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

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part II

Younes Bouadi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad

Rifat Chadirji and Balkis Sharara in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

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

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

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Sharjah Art Foundation, 17-19 March 2012

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

Coline Milliard

Sara Raza

The Cairo Seminar in Alexandria, dOCUMENTA (13)

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

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Contemporary Art from the Middle East

Ibraaz in partnership with Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art

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

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

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Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

Tom Snow

A Report from the AUC

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

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A Report from Cologne

Larissa Sansour

Ala Younis: On Curating

Trevor Paglen: Aesthetics

Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Listening

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Language Arts at The Third Line

Live

Shumon Basar: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Shiva Balaghi: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Todd Reisz: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Farah Al-Nakib: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

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)

Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints

Louis Henderson

Episode Twelve: Prayer, Aerialist

Episode Five: Archives, Avatars

Episode One

Trailer

A web series by Oreet Ashery

Beau Geste: Yto Barrada

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain

Nation Estate

A Space Exodus

Larissa Sansour

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

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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Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Contour Biennale 8

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Invisible Architecture in Rana ElNemr’s Streams of Synonyms

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

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

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

The Art of Shirin Neshat

The Sketches of Mahmoud Al Rifai at FADA 317

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

Rozemin Keshvani

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

Barrak Alzaid

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.

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.

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.

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Choreographing Spaces of Gesticulation

Rana Hamadeh at The Showroom, London

Samah Hijawi

Genealogy of a Territory at MuCEM, Marseille

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

An Ode to Performing Subjectivity in Research

An Alternative Genealogy of Musique Concrète

Shady El Noshokaty at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

The Subversive Feminine

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

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

Maraya Art Centre

'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

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

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

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

Franco Berardi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

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

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Natasha Ginwala

Notes on a Giant Implosion

Lantian Xie at Grey Noise

Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

Portrait of a Salafi en abyme in the Cyber World

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

Embroiderers of Actuality is an action that aims to be a sensible provocation: a visual discussion about the position of women in the society.

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...

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

A Recourse to the Past

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

Building Institutions Through Practice

A Yemeni Art History

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Art and Culture Beyond Institutions in Amman

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

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

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.'

Cevdet Erek at Spike Island, Bristol

Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS

Mirene Arsanios

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

A Review

Oreet Ashery

Taus Makhacheva

Nikolaj Larsen

Mounira Al Solh

Ariel Hassan

Meriç Algün Ringborg

Uriel Orlow

Leung Chi Wo

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

Notes from three spaces in which the law resounds

A project by Maha Maamoun

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

Elevator Advertisements

Two Projects by Sinisa Vlajkovic

Nikolaj Larsen

Francesco Jodice

Basma Alsharif

Dena Al-Adeeb

Written by Mayssa Fattouh

Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind

An Online Performance

I felt the desire to examine the reverse process: what in art history and, more specifically, in the making of art, can contribute to the development of an archiving process?

...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.

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...

The idea of the art archive in the Middle East provokes a number of associations – some of them spiritual, some historical, some clearly political.

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'

The 4th Thessaloniki Biennale

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Contemporary Artistic Practice in Iran at a Revolutionary Moment

Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss

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

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Kuwait’s National Works at the 55th Venice Biennale

Amy Charlesworth

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

Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing

Ibraaz Platform 005 Editorial

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

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

Gulf Labor

Nadia Mounajjed

An Exhibition between Cairo and London

Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi at Chisenhale Gallery

A Talk and Screening by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

Introduction

Artistic Practices, Collective Action and Civil Society in Tunisia

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011

The Impossibilities of Production in New Media

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

An Introduction

Precarious Images, the Aesthetics of Conflict, and the Future of an Anachronism

As a politically engaged artist, I have to believe that artistic practices do have the potential to offer insights and negotiate anything from the demands of cultural institutions to politics and the ideals of civil society. Without such a belief, the entire foundation of what I do would be rattled....

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

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

Perceptions of Occupation and Control in Cyprus

For a Polysemic Reading of Both City and Territory

Cultural institutions in Turkey are divided into those run by the state, local governments and private sectors; each have different culture policies and no significant collaborative policies. Contemporary art productions and practices are based in Istanbul and are dependent on private sector investments, rather than official funds. Compared to the...

Yazid Anani

Mirene Arsanios

Reflections from a book on South Sinai

Yazan Khalili

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

Raymond Baker

Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs

Mayssa Fattouh

Cities have long been sites for conflict, from war and the oppressions of dictators to racisms and religious hatreds. And yet, where national states have historically responded by militarizing conflict, cities have tended to triage conflict through commerce and civic activity. Often the overcoming of urban conflicts became the source...

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...

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation

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