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The Tentmakers of Cairo
Kim Beamish in conversation with Sam Bowker
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The Tentmakers of Cairo
Kim Beamish
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Hassan Khan in Cairo
Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)
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The Noise of Cairo
Heiko Lange in conversation with Amira Gad
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Colony – Latitude
Shady El Noshokaty at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo
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Assembled in Streams of Synonyms
Rana ElNemr at the American University in Cairo’s Sharjah Art Gallery
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Following, A week in Cairo
Roy Samaha
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The Time is Out of Joint
Tarek Abou El Fetouh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey
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Future Imperfect
Nile Sunset Annex: Plotting in Egypt: Art People
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On the Stage of the Event
The Cairo Seminar in Alexandria, dOCUMENTA (13)
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Nile Sunset Annex
An Artist-Run Gallery Space in Cairo
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Battle of Images
Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo
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Townhouse: Practical Solutions, Impractical Conditions
William Wells in conversation at Serpentine Galleries
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The Egyptian Surrealists in Global Perspective
A Report from the AUC
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Hysterical Choir of the Frightened
Doa Aly
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My love for you, Egypt, increases by the day
Heba Y. Amin
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The Sun's Incubator
Ammar Al-Beik
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Clash
Mohamed Diab
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Six Moments from a Revolution
A Brief History of the Shoura Council So Far: February 2015
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Six Moments from a Revolution
Prayer of Fear: September 2013
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Six Moments from a Revolution
A Coup or a Continuation of the Revolution?: July 2013
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Condemned to Depth
Invisible Architecture in Rana ElNemr’s Streams of Synonyms
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When Art Becomes Liberty
The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)
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The Portrait is an Address
Hassan Khan at Beirut Art Center
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Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, Archiving as an Act of Resistance
Lara Baladi
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Sounds as if
Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)
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Halim El Dabh
An Alternative Genealogy of Musique Concrète
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Response to Platform 7 by Asunción Molinos Gordo
'The future of art infrastructures in the region is still very much determined by pre-existing cultural misconceptions applied to audiences... During the last four years in Cairo, I've witnessed in several occasions how part of the audience has been marginalized according to nationality, class, race or economic income.'
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A Dictionary of the Revolution
Amira Hanafi
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Covering One's Back
Gezira Art Center, Cairo
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The Magic of the State
An Exhibition between Cairo and London
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Response to Platform 2 by Lara Baladi
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...
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Response to Platform 1 by Lina Khatib
The Middle East today is witnessing a clash of visual narratives. Images of aging dictators clinging on to their youth, clash with those of fresh-faced protestors. Scenes of medieval methods of curbing freedom of expression – as seen in the thugs on camel and horseback in Tahrir Square in Cairo...
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Qalandiya International 2016
Sites of Return: Ramallah
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Qalandiya International 2016
Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah
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Qalandiya International 2016
O Whale, Don't Swallow Our Moon: Ramallah
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Qalandiya International 2016
This Sea is Mine: Gaza
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Qalandiya International 2016
The People of the Sea: Haifa
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Qalandiya International 2016
Biographies
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Qalandiya International 2016
Acknowledgements
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Qalandiya International 2016
Reflections: Ala Younis Adania Shibli
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A Prologue to the Past and Present State of Things
ARC.HIVE (2006–present): Adham Hafez
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A Prologue to the Past and Present State of Things
Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar
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A Prologue to the Past and Present State of Things
Exhibition Overview
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Curatorial Conundrums – Arab Representation at the 54th Venice Biennale
A roundtable discussion
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Suspended Lives and Emerging Voices
Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar
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An Aesthetics of Expiration
Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey
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An Accidental Orientalist
Tom Bogaert in conversation with Anthony Downey
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Workshopping the future
Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif
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The Video That Exploded
Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey
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On Performing in a Hermetic Context
Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad
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The Jerusalem Show
Chapter 1: Intensities
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Against Interpretation
Hassan Khan in conversation with Omar Kholeif
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Active Interventions/ Intervening Actions
Jasmina Metwaly in conversation with Angela Harutyunyan
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Curating Film
Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra
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The Activity of Painting and Other Actions
Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian
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A Fraction of Experience
Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette
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The public domain has opened up!
Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova
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The Jerusalem Show
Chapter 2: Details
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Echoes & Reverberations
Magdi Mostafa: Wisdom Tower: from the series Sound Cells (Fridays)
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Echoes & Reverberations
Visitations: When aurality loses site* by Rayya Badran
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Echoes & Reverberations
Soundscapes: Taking Apart the Arab City by Dr. Alexandra MacGilp
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Echoes & Reverberations
Curator's Introduction
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Echoes & Reverberations
Exhibition Overview
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A Prologue to the Past and Present State of Things
Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with Ala Younis
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A Prologue to the Past and Present State of Things
OLGA'S NOTES, all those restless bodies: Marwa Arsanios
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A Prologue to the Past and Present State of Things
A Tress of Hair: Doa Aly
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A Letter’s Discourse
Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare
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Acoustic Encounters
Magdi Mostafa in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet
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Film After Euphoria
Rasha Salti in conversation with Sheyma Buali
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FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice
Programme / Schedule
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FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice
Speaker Biographies + Synopses
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FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice
Curatorial Narrative
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FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice
Introduction
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The Non-Located Space
Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif
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Not New Now
Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra
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Between Middle and East
JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson
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Accumulative Processes
Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra
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The Personal and the Political All at Once
Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian
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Migrations of Meaning
Lara Khaldi in conversation with Ghalya Saadawi
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History as Concept
Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad
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The Outsider
Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella
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Image Appropriation
Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey
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The Islamic Sonic-Social
Seth Ayyaz in conversation with Sheyma Buali
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Family Ties
Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou
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Homeland(s)
Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Raed Yassin
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When Energy Becomes Form
Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey
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States of Suspension
Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra
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Art After Identity Politics
Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey
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No Boundaries
Aikaterini Gegisian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey
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Global Art Forum 9
Sheyma Buali in conversation with Turi Munthe and Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi
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Video Channelling
Mai Elwakil in conversation with Daniella Rose King
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Free Expression
The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi
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The Art of Resonance
Tarek Atoui in conversation with Stephanie Bailey
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Transmission Systems
Raed Yassin in conversation with Stephanie Bailey
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From the Ground Up
Discussing arts infrastructure in Tehran
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Lingering in Vicinity
Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza
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An Open Methodology
Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil
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Object Study
Mona Marzouk in conversation with Aleya Hamza
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Alien Encounters
Rana Hamadeh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey
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Photography as Apparatus
Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey
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After the Biennial
Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova
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Cultivating Continuities
Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden
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Visualizing Displacement
Foundland in conversation with Nat Muller
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Curating the Revolution: Meeting Points 7
WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif
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Memory Montage
Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif
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On Logical Revolts
Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad
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Present Continuous
Christine Tohme in conversation with Rachel Dedman
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Revisiting Internationalists
Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz
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Future Imperfect
Alia Rayyan: Recounting the Past, Present and Future
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Future Imperfect
Lois Stonock: Mapping the Possible: Syrian Organizations, Movements and Platforms
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Power Cut Middle East, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Amira Gad
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Art & Patronage Summit
Ibraaz
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March Meeting 2012 Report
Sharjah Art Foundation, 17-19 March 2012
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April Newsletter
Ibraaz
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The New Arab
Art and Culture in the ‘Imagined’ Arab World, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 13 April 2012
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Ibraaz July Newsletter
Ibraaz
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Ibraaz August Newsletter
Ibraaz
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Syrian filmmaker, Orwa Nyrabia, missing
Sheyma Buali
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Syrian Art Comes of Age
Malu Halasa
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Is Artists' Independence Being Subsumed by Politics?
Notes from a roundtable discussion on the state of the arts in Egypt
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The Art Of Dialogue
New initiative fosters connections between the Middle East and the western world
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Ibraaz February Newsletter
Ibraaz
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Ibraaz March Newsletter
Ibraaz
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Ibraaz Platform 005
Ibraaz
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Ibraaz June Newsletter
Ibraaz
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Present Projections
Future Imperfect, A Symposium
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Ibraaz May Newsletter
Ibraaz
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Ibraaz June Newsletter
Ibraaz
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Ibraaz January Newsletter
Ibraaz
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JAOU Tunis 2015
News JAOU Tunis 2015 008 / 18 May 2015 Jaou Tunis 2015. Copyright Kamel Lazaar Foundation. Visual Culture in an Age of Global Conflict The Kamel Lazaar Foundation is pleased to announce that it will stage a two-day conference at the National Museum of Bardo from 28–29 May, 2015. This...
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Ibraaz Reader 009/04
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Ibraaz Reader 009/05
Ibraaz
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Ibraaz Reader 009/06
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New Appointments at Ibraaz
Ibraaz
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Ibraaz January Reader 009/07
Ibraaz
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Ibraaz February Reader 009/08
Ibraaz
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Future Musings
On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’
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Ibraaz Reader 009/10
Ibraaz
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Telling Other Stories
A Report from Cologne
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Ibraaz Talks: Art Dubai 2013
Sophia Al-Maria: On Automobiles
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Ibraaz Talks: Art Dubai 2013
Basim Magdy: On Science Fiction
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Ibraaz Talks: 13th Istanbul Biennial
Basim Magdy & Stephanie Bailey: Collective Memory
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Ibraaz Talks: Global Art Forum 8
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: in conversation with Anthony Downey
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Global Art Forum 8
Ibn Khaldun’s The Muqadimmah
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A Tress of Hair
Doa Aly
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Girl
Sondos Shabayek
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Logical Revolts
Louis Henderson
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Though I Know the River is Dry
Omar Robert Hamilton
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Six Moments from a Revolution: A Mosireen Video Timeline
Omar Robert Hamilton
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Unfolding the Structures of Sound
Cevdet Erek in conversation with Başak Şenova
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Creating Intimacies: On the Spring Sessions Programme in Amman
Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda
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On Building Nations
A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled
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Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East
Edited by Anthony Downey (Sternberg Press, 2016)
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News
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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Where to Now: Shifting Regional Dynamics and Cultural Production in North Africa and the Middle East
Platform 010 Editorial
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Violent Relatedness, Embeddings, Hindsight
Ala Younis
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Both Sides of the Curtain
Meeting Points 8
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Questions of Collectivity in the Absence of Connectivity
On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah
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Dear Animal
Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun
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Al Araba Al Madfuna
Wael Shawky at the Fondazione Merz
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Art et Liberté
Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938–1948) at the Centre Pompidou
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The 4th Aflam International Festival of Arab Cinema
Natasha Marie Llorens
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Off the Record
Nil Yalter at ARTER, Istanbul
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Swimming Backwards
Khalid Abdalla
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What Representations?
Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With
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Towards a Spatial Imaginary
Walking Cabbages and Watermelons
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Showroom Dummies
The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art
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Return to the Former Middle East
Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial
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Queer Chronopolitics
Forests, Freaks and Performativity
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Where to Now?
An Introduction to Platform 010
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Critique as Infrastructure
Organic Growth and the Rise of Visual Arts Organizations in the UAE
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Response to Platform 10 by Sabrina DeTurk
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.
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Response to Platform 10 by Alex Dika Seggerman
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.
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Not so Silent
On Walking and Crawling
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Un/Interrupted Formations
Choreographing Spaces of Gesticulation
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An Unknown Lover's Discourse
An Ode to Performing Subjectivity in Research
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The Image(s) Between Us
The Performance of Death in a Post-9/11 World
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On Constant Invention
Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach
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Being ‘Inappropriate’
The Unspoken Battle of Self-Censorship
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'A Deep Reverence for the Region's History'
Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek
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Response to Platform 9 by Adel Abidin
Adel Abidin presents Subway Scene (2015).
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The Life and Times of Louis Saboungi
A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography
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Transition Times
Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale
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Letters to Naeem Mohaiemen
Lara Khaldi
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Tout va bien?
'Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity' at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
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Maps That Don’t Belong
Natasha Ginwala
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Hassan Matar
Lantian Xie at Grey Noise
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Other Maps
On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies
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Between Iran and Dubai
An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History
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Response to Platform 8 by Embroiderers of Actuality
Embroiderers of Actuality is an action that aims to be a sensible provocation: a visual discussion about the position of women in the society.
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Response to Platform 8 by Farida El Gazzar
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.
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Response to Platform 8 by Anthony Gardner
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.
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Platform 007: Future Imperfect (Part II)
Building Institutions Through Practice
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Walling Strategy
Can T-Wall Murals really Beautify the Fragmented Baghdad?
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Future Fiction
In the Shadow of Nasser
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Designing the Future
What Does It Mean to Be Building a Library in Iraq?
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Other People’s Stories
Or, Severing History From the Person
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Response to Platform 7 by Judith Greer
'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.'
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Come Together
The Sharjah Art Foundation's 2014 March Meeting
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Recalling the Future
Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS
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Beyond the Odalisque
A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene
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We Are What We Eat
The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation
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Curated Conversations
HIWAR | Conversations in Amman
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Juvenalia
Malak Helmy and Sophia Al Maria
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On the Back of Sleep
Malak Helmy
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My Dick in My Dick, Kiss Me Again, After Eight, All Mother Tongues Are Difficult and their sisters.
Mounira Al Solh
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2922 Days
Uriel Orlow
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It is small, we like it this way
Aikaterini Gegisian
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Two Stories Distorted
Mohamed Abdelkarim
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Painter on a Study Trip II
Mahmoud Khaled
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Common Elements
Iman Issa
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From Behind the Monument
Jasmina Metwaly
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Hashem L Kelesh – هاشم الكلش
Medrar .TV
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Portraits
Setareh Shahbazi
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Night Visitor
A project by Maha Maamoun
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98weeks: Our Lines Are Now Open
A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language
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Sound from the Hallways
Lasse Lau
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Beyond the Image
A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene
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Do You Have Work Tomorrow?
Mahmoud Khaled
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Revolutionary art
Naira Antoun
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Writing on the Walls
Transition, a photographic series by Myriam Abdelaziz
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Fallin' Dictators
Lina Khatib
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The Video Diaries
Khaled Hafez
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The A77A Project
On Presidents & Superheroes
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Fastforward And Rewind
Setareh Shahbazi
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The Provisionary That Lasts (series)
Ahmed Badry
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pepsi, cola, water?
Tom Bogaert
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Love Letters to a Union – The Falling Comrades
Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi
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Learning to Dance
An Online Performance
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On The Admissibility of Sound
Seth Ayyaz
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17 and in AUC: Documentation
Hassan Khan
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Response to Platform 6 by Mohamed Abdelkarim
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...
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In/distinction
Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh’s 'A photographic conversation from Burj al-Shamali Camp'
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Response to Platform 6 by Joy Garnett
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...
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Dancing with Barbarians
The 13th Istanbul Biennial
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On the set of the 55th Venice Biennale
The Encyclopedic Palace
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Trials of Arab Modernity
Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss
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Tea With Nefertiti
The Making of the Artwork by the Artist, the Museum and the Public
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Welcome to Iraq and Otherwise Occupied
Iraq and Palestine at the 2013 Venice Biennale
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The Future of the Future
Ibraaz Platform 005 Editorial
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On Being 'The Other' In Post-Civil War Lebanon
Aid and the Politics of Art in Processes of Contemporary Cultural Production
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Response to Platform 5 by Basim Magdy
Basim Magdy, 13 Essential Rules for Understanding the World , 2011, super 8 film transferred to HD video, 5 min. 16 sec. Courtesy the artist and Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York.
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Response to Platform 5 by Jessica Winegar
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...
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On One Side of the Same Water
Introduction
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The Double Reflection
Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear
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On One Side of the Same Water
Artistic Practice from Tirana to Tangier
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The Many Afterlives of Lulu
The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout
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Art’s Networks
A New Communal Model
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Citizens Reporting and the Fabrication of Collective Memory
Jens Maier-Rothe
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Digital, Aesthetic, Ephemeral
The Shifting Narrative of Uprising
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Staging the Transition in North Africa
Theatre As a Tool of Empowerment
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Response to Platform 4 by Basim Magdy
Platform for discussion004 With the benefit of hindsight, what role does new media play in artistic practices, activism, and as an agent for social change in the Middle East and North Africa today? Basim Magdy 2 November 2012 Basim Magdy Every Subtle Gesture, 2012 - ongoing Colour prints on Fuji...
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Response to Platform 4 by Anne Barlow
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...
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Response to Platform 3 by William Wells
Since the 25th of January 2011, a traditional arts programming model has become functionally irrelevant in Egypt. In this context of conflict and change, diverse publics have asked to use Townhouse's spaces in ways that extend far beyond the scope of visual arts exhibitions. Consequently, over the past year, we...
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Response to Platform 3 by Sandra Teitge
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...
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Response to Platform 3 by Laura U. Marks
Yes, artistic practices can offer insights into those things – but need they? Many artists in the region deftly wield smart institutional critique without breaking a sweat. But why not pass that responsibility to the audiences for their work? I think the best way to develop civil society is not...
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Response to Platform 3 by Myriam Abdelaziz
Writing on the Walls: Transition, A Photographic Series by Myriam Abdelaziz
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Ibraaz Platform 003 Editorial: What Was Lost?
Anthony Downey
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The Social Impulse
Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings
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Go Down, Moses: Tourism, Space and Ideology.
Reflections from a book on South Sinai
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Response to Platform 2 by Raafat Ishak
Platform for discussion002 What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? Raafat Ishak 1 November 2011 Raafat Ishak Mount Appeal, 2011 Acrylic on MDF 65 x 50 cm Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne '> Raafat Ishak Mount Appeal, 2011 Acrylic on MDF 65...
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About us
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...
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Understanding the Threat to Arab Youth Uprisings
Joe Khalil
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Response to Platform 1 by Shahira Issa
It is in protest.
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Response to Platform 1 by Saskia Sassen
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...
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Response to Platform 1 by Rayya Badran
Sitting in the sweltering sun of Sharjah on a large rolled carpet on the open esplanade facing the museum, I express to an acquaintance, my uneasiness and inability to respond to the question. We need MENA (I had continually mistaken it for MENASA, unconsciously adding yet another region to the...
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Response to Platform 1 by Pryle Behrman
In an email dialogue between Beirut-based architect Tony Chakar and critic Stephen Wright (published in the catalogue for Out of Beirut at Modern Art Oxford in 2006), Chakar takes Wright to task for his habitual use of the label 'Middle East': 'The more I thought about it the more it...
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Response to Platform 1 by Nadira Laggoune
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...
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Ethnography + Art: Convergence or Collision?
Mark Westmoreland
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Response to Platform 1 by Aida Eltorie
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...
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Beyond the Former Middle East
Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation
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