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Edmund Clark at the Imperial War Museum, London

Debra Levine: Toward A Common Satisfaction of Needs

Neha Vora: Warehouse as Dubai's Cultural Heritage

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

Kevin Jones: Marketing Presentation for Boxed Branded Plush Toys as Art

Murtaza Vali: 'Arresting Flows, Stacking Forms'

Vikram Divecha

Khalid Abdalla

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

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

Shezad Dawood

Adelita Husni-Bey

Setareh Shahbazi

Kuwait’s National Works at the 55th Venice Biennale

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

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

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

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

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Amar Kanwar in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Notes Toward a Theory of Transformative Justice

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

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

HIWAR | Conversations in Amman

A project by Ali Cherri

Dalia Khamissy

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

Waterside Contemporary

Hauser & Wirth / Alan Cristea Gallery: A Spectrum Review

Sharjah Biennial 11 – Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography

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

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...

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...

In Lebanon, we live surrounded by dead people looking at us. Since the beginning of the civil wars, posters have covered the walls of the city. They are images of men, martyrs who died tragically while fighting or on mission, or who were political figures and were murdered. For years,...

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...

Platform for discussion001 What do we need to know about the MENA region today? Jananne Al-Ani 1 June 2011 Jananne Al-Ani Aerial I, 2011 Stills from Shadow Sites II Single channel digital video Courtesy the artist and the Abraaj Capital Art Prize Photograph by Adrian Warren '> Jananne Al-Ani Aerial...

'If we try to solve society's problems without overcoming the confusion and aggression in our own state of mind, then our efforts will only contribute to the basic problems, instead of solving them.' Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior (1984)

When did the major museums of the West start taking contemporary Middle Eastern art into consideration? After 2006, with the first successful sale of Middle Eastern contemporary art by Christie's in Dubai, and the announcement shortly afterwards that Abu Dhabi was going to invest billions in museum creation. Of course,...

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...

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

Lina Lazaar

A roundtable discussion

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

Ismaïl Bahri in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Shezad Dawood in conversation with Sara Raza

Adonis in conversation with Laura Allsop

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Jack Persekian in conversation with Basak Senova

Christine Tohme in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nada Sehnaoui in conversation with Laura Allsop

Michket Krifa in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

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

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Guy Mannes-Abbott in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Jeanno Gaussi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Diana Al-Hadid in Conversation with Fawz Kabra

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Chapter 1: Intensities

Hassan Khan in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jasmina Metwaly in conversation with Angela Harutyunyan

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

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

Pascal Hachem in conversation with Nour K Sacranie

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

Cynthia Zaven in conversation with Basak Senova

Simone Fattal in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

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

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jeremy Hutchison in conversation with Natasha Hoare

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

Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

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

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

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

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

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Rasha Salti in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Programme / Schedule

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Introduction

Online exhibition catalogue

Farah Al-Nakib in conversation with Todd Reisz

Closing Remarks

Meriem Bennani in conversation with Myriam Ben Salah

Online Programme

Video documentation: Day 2

Video documentation: Day 1

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

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson

Alya Sebti in conversation with Göksu Kunak

UBIK in conversation with Isabella Ellaheh Hughes

Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Online exhibition catalogue

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

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Sussan Deyhim in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Matthias Lilienthal in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Caveh Zahedi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Robin Kahn in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Adelita Husni-Bey in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

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

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Online exhibition catalogue

Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Seth Ayyaz in conversation with Sheyma Buali

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

Özgür Uçkan and Vasif Kortun in conversation with Basak Senova

Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Raed Yassin

Walid Siti in conversation with Nat Muller

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Timo Nasseri in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Anthony Downey

Mohanad Yaqubi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Eric Van Hove in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

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

November Paynter and Didem Pekün in conversation with Basak Senova

Köken Ergun in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Mai Elwakil in conversation with Daniella Rose King

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi

Tarek Atoui in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ahd in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Burak Arıkan in conversation with Basak Senova

Hisham Al-Madhloum in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Eungie Joo in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Raed Yassin in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Discussing arts infrastructure in Tehran

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

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

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

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

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

Wael Shawky in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Ayşe Erkmen in conversation with Basak Senova

Larissa Sansour in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

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

Hicham Khalidi in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif

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

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

Lamia Joreige in conversation with Anthony Downey

Christine Tohme in conversation with Rachel Dedman

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

Eric Baudelaire in conversation with Anthony Downey

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

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

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

Reflections 03

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Art and Culture in the ‘Imagined’ Arab World, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 13 April 2012

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Nour K Sacranie

Fawz Kabra

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Isabella Ellaheh Hughes

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

Coline Milliard

Nour K Sacranie

Charlotte Bank

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Rachida Triki

Sara Raza

The Cairo Seminar in Alexandria, dOCUMENTA (13)

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Sheyma Buali

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Sheyma Buali

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Malu Halasa

Two Exhibitions in Paris

The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Artist Residency Programme

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

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New initiative fosters connections between the Middle East and the western world

An Artist-Run Gallery Space in Cairo

Questions to be addressed

Ibraaz

Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

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

Ibraaz in partnership with Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art

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

A Slavs and Tatars Panel Discussion at Art Space Pythagorion

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A Report on Future City

Future Imperfect, A Symposium

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Aimee Dawson

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Decolonizing Architecture at Tate Modern

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Edge of Arabia Launches Culturunners

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Reema Salha Fadda

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Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

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Online exhibition catalogue

Online exhibition catalogue

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Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

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William Wells in conversation at Serpentine Galleries

A Report from the AUC

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

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Işıl Eğrikavuk's The Art of Disagreement

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On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’

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Two Exhibitions on the Armenian Legacy in Anatolia

A Report from Cologne

Videobrasil

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

Aimee Dawson

Sophia Al-Maria: On Automobiles

Guy Mannes-Abbott: On Drones

Basim Magdy: On Science Fiction

Murtaza Vali: On Domesticity

Ibraaz Talks: Wafaa Bilal

Trevor Paglen: Aesthetics

Köken Ergun: Lived Experience

Burak Arikan & Başak Şenova: Network Data

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Language Arts at The Third Line

Live

Hans Ulrich Obrist: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Shumon Basar: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Shiva Balaghi: 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

Farah Al-Nakib: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

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)

1972-1982 Spaceship Sheraton and the Making of Doha's Masterplans

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

Tania El Khoury

Lin Yilin

Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints

Performances at Echoes & Reverberations

Dictaphone group

Wafaa Bilal

Hiwa K.

Ibraaz

Zoukak Theatre Company

Tania El Khoury

Shirin Neshat

Sondos Shabayek

Louis Henderson

Kim Beamish

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

A web series by Oreet Ashery

Kauther

Al Intithar : (The Waiting )

Mario Rizzi

A Hero Never Dies: Wissam Charaf

Beau Geste: Yto Barrada

Jim Quilty

Sama Alshaibi

Saad

A tribute by Gelareh Kiazand

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Farah Saleh

Larissa Sansour

Ahd

Ammar Al-Beik

Bouchra Khalili

Filipa César and Louis Henderson

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

Basir Mahmood

Mohamed Diab

Mithkal Alzghair

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

Martyrs of the Egyptian Revolution: December 2011

Council presents: The Against Nature Journal

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Trace Environments: Sovereignty, toxicity and the littoral

Omar Robert Hamilton

Yaman (2016)

Fade to Black (2015)

Amer AlBarzawi

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2014)

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2015)

Omar Robert Hamilton

Edited by Anthony Downey (Walther König Verlag, 2017)

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

Edited by Anthony Downey (Sternberg Press, 2016)

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,...

Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Reema Salha Fadda

Contour Biennale 8

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Notes on a film by Kamal Aljafari

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

Lizzy Collier

Invisible Architecture in Rana ElNemr’s Streams of Synonyms

Meeting Points 8

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun

Wael Shawky at the Fondazione Merz

Negative Ecstasy at Dirimart, Istanbul

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

Natasha Marie Llorens

Nil Yalter at ARTER, Istanbul

Katia Kameli at the Mosaic Rooms

Closing Remarks

Hassan Khan at Beirut Art Center

Inspired by calligraphy

Hamid Dabashi

Vikram Divecha at Tashkeel

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

Technology and Its Discontents

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Sophia Al-Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Reflections on Reflections

Etel Adnan at Serpentine Galleries

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Rayyane Tabet at Museo Marino Marini

Lara Baladi

At Aicon Gallery, New York

The Artist as Awakener at AUB

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

At Ab Anbar Gallery

Rozemin Keshvani

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

Participatory Art in the Middle East

Nicola Baird

The 37th EVA International

On Assumption and Authority

Forests, Freaks and Performativity

An Introduction to Platform 010

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

Barrak Alzaid

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...

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.

To answer this question I propose an excerpt from a text in progress called 'Art and Garbage'. This piece is intended to look into the relation between urgent social problems – in this case the ongoing garbage crisis in Lebanon – and contemporary art.

Anthony Downey

On Walking and Crawling

Earshot by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Portikus, Frankfurt

KVS Theater in Brussels

Grey Noise Gallery

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

Rana Hamadeh at The Showroom, London

Samah Hijawi

The Little Deaths of Christodoulos Panayiotou

Genealogy of a Territory at MuCEM, Marseille

Green Art Gallery

Ahmad Makia

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

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

Vartan Avakian at Marfa’

The performative in the work of Hassan Khan

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

At the 41st Aeschylia Festival

The Subversive Feminine

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

The Unspoken Battle of Self-Censorship

The 13th Biennale de Lyon

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

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

A Review of the 56th Venice Biennale

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

Interventions as Performative Gestures For Political Engagement in Jordan

Practice, Performance, Politics

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

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

Franco Berardi

Lara Khaldi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

'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

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Natasha Ginwala

Notes on a Giant Implosion

Monira Al Qadiri

Lantian Xie at Grey Noise

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

Five Stages of an Artist Residency

Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

On the Work of Basma Alsharif

Portrait of a Salafi en abyme in the Cyber World

Anthony Downey

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

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

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.

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...

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

Conflicting Narratives and the Invention of Geographies

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

An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf

Tina Sherwell

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

Art and Culture Beyond Institutions in Amman

From the Intimate to the World

Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi

Berlin Documentary Forum 3 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

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

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Mounira Al Solh at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut

Burak Delier at Iniva

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

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?

Or, Severing History From the Person

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

"Neither identification with an institution nor disengagement from an institution guarantees fluid, sensitive attitudes and openmindedness."

'I don't believe culture is nowadays negotiating social activity, political engagement and critical practices. Culture is following the forces of the market.'

'You can't draw desire, you have to walk it.'

'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.'

'When one speaks of 'art infrastructures', it is crucial to recognize that infrastructures are, most importantly, people...and one of the most critical and urgent needs is for arts education.'

'Better imagine now, rather than later.'

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

Maryam Jafri at Gasworks

Cevdet Erek at Spike Island, Bristol

Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

Haleh Redjaian at Arratia Beer

Georgia Kotretsos: SPRING CLEANING and KARFI in Rabat

A Review

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

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

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

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

Wafaa Bilal at Maraya Art Park, Sharjah

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg