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Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Rasha Salti in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Amira Gad

Nour K Sacranie

Sheyma Buali

Shezad Dawood

Notes on a film by Kamal Aljafari

Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun

A Mother's Tongue, On Ahmad Ghossein's film My Father is Still a Communist

Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette

Basma Alsharif: We Began by Measuring Distance

Anas Al-Shaikh: My land, 2

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Caveh Zahedi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mounira al Solh in conversation with Nat Muller

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Mohanad Yaqubi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Sumesh Sharma in conversation with Amanprit Sandhu

Ahd in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Rana Hamadeh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

Wael Shawky in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Larissa Sansour in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Kim Beamish in conversation with Sam Bowker

Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad

Lamia Joreige in conversation with Anthony Downey

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

Coline Milliard

Sheyma Buali

Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

Aimee Dawson

Larissa Sansour

Moncef Dhouib: Theatre- and film-maker

Dowry for Mahrou: Samira Eskandarfar

Iranian Carpet: Amir Mousavi

Making of.. Kiarostami Carpet

Water: Hamed Sahihi

Yellow, Blue, Red: Ali Karim

From Carpet to Celestial Heavens: Hamideh Razavi

A tribute by Gelareh Kiazand

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Ahd

Ammar Al-Beik

Filipa César and Louis Henderson

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

Basir Mahmood

Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium

Mohamed Diab

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

Prayer of Fear: September 2013

A Coup or a Continuation of the Revolution?: July 2013

The People Demand the Fall of the Regime: January 2012

Martyrs of the Egyptian Revolution: December 2011

The Maspero Massacre: October 2011

Omar Robert Hamilton

Omar Robert Hamilton

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,...

Wael Shawky at the Fondazione Merz

Natasha Marie Llorens

Hamid Dabashi

The Artist as Awakener at AUB

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Rana Hamadeh at The Showroom, London

An Ode to Performing Subjectivity in Research

Jumana Manna at Chisenhale Gallery, London

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

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Notes on a Giant Implosion

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

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

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Mounira Al Solh at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut

Burak Delier at Iniva

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

Eric Baudelaire

Yogesh Barve & Clark House Initiative

Uriel Orlow

Leung Chi Wo

Isak Berbic

Azin Feizabadi

Jasmina Metwaly

A project by Ali Cherri

A project by Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

A project by Maha Maamoun

A project by Katia Kameli

The Part about the Bandits Pt.2

Lasse Lau

Documenting the Backlash

A Project by Anahita Razmi

Francesco Jodice

Cecilia Andersson

Basma Alsharif

Kamal Aljafari

Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi

Dispatch One: the Artist and the Archive, June–September 2013

An I for an Eye and Death of a Cameraman

Alsi Çavuşoğlu at Delfina Foundation, London

/si:n/ Festival of Video Art and Performance, Ramallah

Waterside Contemporary

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Iraq and Palestine at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

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.

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

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...

The Enemy Inside Me

Mark Westmoreland

Critical reflections on Ibraaz publications

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Gaza

O Whale, Don't Swallow Our Moon: Ramallah

Pattern Recognition: Ramallah

A Series of Un-Curated Events: Ramallah

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

Sea of Stories: Beirut

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

Partner institutions

Encounters Programme

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Reflections: Ala Younis Adania Shibli

Introduction: Qi2016 Curatorial Team

Responses

ARC.HIVE (2006–present): Adham Hafez

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Exhibition Overview

Shirin Neshat

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

Ala Ebtekar in conversation with Sara Raza

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

Chapter 1: Intensities

Hassan Khan in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Jasmina Metwaly in conversation with Angela Harutyunyan

Ala Younis in conversation with Liane Al-Ghusain

Heiko Lange in conversation with Amira Gad

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Cynthia Zaven in conversation with Basak Senova

Simone Fattal in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jeremy Hutchison in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Marie-Monique Steckel in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Chapter 7: Fabric

Chapter 6: Writing

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 4: Measures

Chapter 2: Details

A Question: Jalal Toufic

Online exhibition catalogue

A View from the City: Tina Sherwell

Visitations: When aurality loses site* by Rayya Badran

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

Curator's Introduction

Exhibition Overview

Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with Ala Younis

Bent Jbeil: Wael Shawky

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

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

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation with Sarah Abu Abdallah

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Sheyma Buali

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

Sussan Deyhim in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Matthias Lilienthal in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lara Khaldi in conversation with Ghalya Saadawi

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Robin Kahn in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

Hiwa K in conversation with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Farah Saleh in conversation with Marianna Liosi

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou

Dia Azzawi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Raed Yassin

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Timo Nasseri in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Anthony Downey

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra

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

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

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Raed Yassin in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

Mona Marzouk in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

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

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Ayşe Erkmen in conversation with Basak Senova

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

WHW 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

Tarek Abou El Fetouh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Rifat Chadirji and Balkis Sharara in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

Christine Tohme in conversation with Rachel Dedman

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

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

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

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Fawz Kabra

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

Charlotte Bank

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Sara Raza

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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

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

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An Artist-Run Gallery Space in Cairo

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Ibraaz in partnership with Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art

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

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Future Imperfect, A Symposium

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09–11 May, Museé National du Bardo, Tunis

Edge of Arabia Launches Culturunners

News The Jerusalem Show 007 / 24 October 2014 Ibraaz is pleased to announce the opening of THE JERUSALEM SHOW VII: FRACTURES. Curated by Basak Senova and organized by Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, this year's show runs from 24 October to 7 November 2014, and is presented in...

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Reema Salha Fadda

Theme: Performance

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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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Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

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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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Jim Quilty

A Report from Cologne

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Aimee Dawson

Sophia Al-Maria: On Automobiles

Ala Younis: On Curating

Guy Mannes-Abbott: On Drones

Basim Magdy: On Science Fiction

Köken Ergun: Lived Experience

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler: Social Imagination

Basim Magdy & Stephanie Bailey: Collective Memory

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John Akomfrah: in conversation with Anthony Downey

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

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

Fayçal Baghriche

Wael Shawky

John Akomfrah: Artist

Zineb Sedira: Artist

Nick Denes: Researcher

Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints

Nancy Atakan

Katia Kameli: Untitled (2011)

Atef Berredjem: Living with The Aliens (2011)

The Future Was Global/Art/Forum

Khaled Kaddal

Shirin Neshat

Sondos Shabayek

Louis Henderson

Nat Muller

Kim Beamish

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

Debra Levine: Toward A Common Satisfaction of Needs

The Outsider

Kauther

Al Intithar : (The Waiting )

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

A Hero Never Dies: Wissam Charaf

Short Wave/Long Wave: Vartan Avakian

Saving Face: Jalal Toufic

Beau Geste: Yto Barrada

Paris Without a Sea: Mounira Al Solh

Jim Quilty

Sama Alshaibi

Saad

Heba Y. Amin

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain

Nation Estate

A Space Exodus

Larissa Sansour

Bouchra Khalili

Aikaterini Gegisian and Fatma Çiftçi

Council presents: The Against Nature Journal

Trace Environments: Sovereignty, toxicity and the littoral

Contour Biennale 8 / DAI Roaming Assembly #12

Yaman (2016)

Fade to Black (2015)

Amer AlBarzawi

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2014)

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2015)

Cevdet Erek in conversation with Başak Şenova

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

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Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Contour Biennale 8

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Lizzy Collier

Invisible Architecture in Rana ElNemr’s Streams of Synonyms

Yazan Ashqar

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Negative Ecstasy at Dirimart, Istanbul

Nil Yalter at ARTER, Istanbul

Katia Kameli at the Mosaic Rooms

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Hassan Khan at Beirut Art Center

Khalid Abdalla

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Sophia Al-Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Reflections on Reflections

Edmund Clark at the Imperial War Museum, London

Etel Adnan at Serpentine Galleries

Lara Baladi

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

The 37th EVA International

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

An Introduction to Platform 010

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

Anthony Downey

On Walking and Crawling

Tarek Al-Ghoussein at Galerie Brigitte Schenk

Earshot by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Portikus, Frankfurt

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Choreographing Spaces of Gesticulation

Six Short Stories on Arabic Voice Acting

The Little Deaths of Christodoulos Panayiotou

Genealogy of a Territory at MuCEM, Marseille

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

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

A Review of the 56th Venice Biennale

Adel Abidin presents Subway Scene (2015).

Practice, Performance, Politics

Narratives and Ghosts from the International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978, at MACBA

Natasha Ginwala

Monira Al Qadiri

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

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

On the Work of Basma Alsharif

Portrait of a Salafi en abyme in the Cyber World

The Cultural Centre of the Philippines opened to great political fanfare on 10 September 1969, with a ceremony that was graced by none less than California Governor Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy acting on the orders of President Nixon.

In a recent video work, Mouthfeel (2014) and a related lecture-performance titled Playlist (2014), I focused on symmetries between forms of aspirational consumption in the Global South.

Conflicting Narratives and the Invention of Geographies

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

A Recourse to the Past

Building Institutions Through Practice

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Art and Culture Beyond Institutions in Amman

From the Intimate to the World

In the Shadow of Nasser

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

Global Art Forum 8 at Katara Art Center

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

'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.'

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

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

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

Maryam Jafri at Gasworks

The Sharjah Art Foundation's 2014 March Meeting

Cevdet Erek at Spike Island, Bristol

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

Almagul Menlibayeva

Sarah Abu Abdallah

Malak Helmy and Sophia Al Maria

Oreet Ashery

Malak Helmy

Simohammed Fettaka & Basak Senova

Basma Alsharif

Rosana Palazyan

Ariel Hassan

Youmna Chlala

Aikaterini Gegisian

Mohamed Fariji

Caline Aoun

Monira Al Qadiri

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg

On the Rooftop

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

Sophia Al-Maria

Cynthia Zaven

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

Elevator Advertisements

Dream Homes and Community-building

Roy Samaha

A project by Tom Bogaert for Ibraaz

A Libyan Diary (Part III) - December 2011

A Libyan Diary (Part II) - November 2011

Nikolaj Larsen

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Marwa Arsanios

On Presidents & Superheroes

Dalia Khamissy

Shadi Habib Allah

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Setareh Shahbazi

On Silence and Noise in Times of Crisis

Tom Bogaert

Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind

An Online Performance

Adham Faramawy

Samah Hijawi

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?

Akira Mizuta Lippit, in Atomic Light (Shadow Optics), characterizes the shadow archive as what cannot be archived, and therefore survives when the archive is destroyed. The shadow archive describes the majority of Arab cultural memory, which survives in non-visual traces, such as the work done by memory and imagination in...

The Search for 'Nurafkan'

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

The Recordings of the Cosmopolitan

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh’s 'A photographic conversation from Burj al-Shamali Camp'

From the photo-text series Getty vs. Ghana (2012).

The 13th Istanbul Biennial

Omar Kholeif

Profiles: Collecting Art in Lebanon at AUB Gallery, Lebanon

Tinkerings on the Instable Present Tense

Amy Charlesworth

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

Ibraaz Platform 005 Editorial

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

Looking for Palestine in the Jordanian Music Scene

An Exhibition between Cairo and London

Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi at Chisenhale Gallery

Basim Magdy at Newman Popiashvili

The Problem of Nationality

Refraction: Moving Images on Palestine at P21 Gallery

A Talk and Screening by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa

Introduction

Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011

Jens Maier-Rothe

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

The Impossibilities of Production in New Media

Tarek Khoury

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

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Foundland

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...

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...

vs. The Ruler was made during the first year of the Arab uprising. It is comprised of two custom-made wooden 'electrocution' chairs (thrones) sitting in opposition to each other. The patriarchal male throne suggests the military and religion. Its counterpart is also suggestive of Islamic architecture, but is grounded by...

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

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...

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....

'What do we do when as artists we are invited to behave as liberal democratic [beings]? You have your own space, each has their own little house, we can all live together; does this not sound like the idea of a Lebanon of all the different mosaics and cohabitation -...

I am broadly interested in addressing the recontextualisation of cultural heritage in the MENA region by institutions, thus aligning it in the process with current developments in contemporary art at large. Artistic practices are frequently used to measure the economic and cultural growth of geographies. This is often achieved by...

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

Anthony Downey

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

Dar al-Ma'mûn is a new arts centre and residency for artists and translators outside of Marrakech. The questions of public space and of civil society have been with us since the beginning, as we were trying to avoid creating a mere retreat for artists, a luxurious ivory tower for intellectuals...

Yazan Khalili

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...

Ela Greenberg

Joe Khalil

Rachida Triki

Mayssa Fattouh

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,...

Chamber of Public Secrets Here, There, Then, Elsewhere, 2011 Video, 21' Produced by CPS Chamber of Public Secrets

Richard Sennett calls 'we' a weasel word. Which 'we' is hailed in this project? Let's say that this 'we' is in the West, and that it doesn't include politicians and policy-makers but ordinary people. My answer to this question is certainly different than it would have been six months ago....

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation

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