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Technology and Its Discontents

Caline Aoun

Wafaa Bilal in conversation with Sara Raza

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Tarek Atoui in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

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Rozemin Keshvani

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...

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah

A Series of Un-Curated Events: Ramallah

Biographies

Encounters Programme

Responses

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Jack Persekian in conversation with Basak Senova

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Chapter 1: Intensities

Hassan Khan in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Cynthia Zaven in conversation with Basak Senova

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

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

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

Looking at Wafaa Bilal's Domestic Tension : Barrak Alzaid

Magdi Mostafa in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Closing Remarks

Meriem Bennani in conversation with Myriam Ben Salah

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Özgür Uçkan and Vasif Kortun in conversation with Basak Senova

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

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

November Paynter and Didem Pekün in conversation with Basak Senova

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi

Burak Arıkan in conversation with Basak Senova

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Mona Marzouk in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Rana Hamadeh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Joe Namy in conversation with Garine Aivazian

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Ayşe Erkmen in conversation with Basak Senova

Larissa Sansour in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Hicham Khalidi in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

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

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

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

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Sara Raza

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Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Edge of Arabia Launches Culturunners

Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

The Art for Tomorrow Conference 2016 in Doha

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

Trevor Paglen: Aesthetics

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler: Social Imagination

Burak Arikan & Başak Şenova: Network Data

Shumon Basar: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

The Future Was Underwater

Louis Henderson

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

Jim Quilty

A Space Exodus

Filipa César and Louis Henderson

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Cevdet Erek in conversation with Başak Şenova

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

Ala Younis

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Invisible Architecture in Rana ElNemr’s Streams of Synonyms

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Closing Remarks

Inspired by calligraphy

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Lara Baladi

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

Forests, Freaks and Performativity

Barrak Alzaid

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

The 13th Biennale de Lyon

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...'

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

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...

An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

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

In a globalized and quite complex world we need 'tools' to help shape our societies. This is what art institutions could be: giant toolboxes!

'By producing an idea of the future, art transgresses official history and produces its own reality.'

'I suggest that we look at the past and present strengths of cultural organizations, which have always served social and informational purposes, regardless of region and time. It is in these two spheres that the future resides.'

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

Simohammed Fettaka & Basak Senova

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg

Basak Senova on Zeren Göktan's Counter (2013)

Sophia Al-Maria

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

A Project by Saba Innab

A project by Benji Boyadgian

Tahrir Archives

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

Seth Ayyaz

Adham Faramawy

The Search for 'Nurafkan'

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

The Recordings of the Cosmopolitan

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice

Amy Charlesworth

Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers

Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011

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

Selçuk Artut. Courtesy of the artist.

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...

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...

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...

Anthony Downey

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

Perceptions of Occupation and Control in Cyprus

On-longing: A Project by Saba Innab

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...

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...

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...

Sama Alshaibi Sweep , 2010 Courtesy of Selma Feriani Gallery, London and on air on ikono TV The question 'What do we need to know about the MENA region today?' poses an important and challenging demand on the respondents. With regards to the art, you can easily point at world...

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