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

Mirene Arsanios

A tool-guide by Temporary. Art. Platform. (T.A.P.) with Nayla Geagea

Profiles: Collecting Art in Lebanon at AUB Gallery, Lebanon

Sea of Stories: Beirut

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Randa Mirza in conversation with Amira Gad

Mounira al Solh in conversation with Nat Muller

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

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

Ibraaz

The Public and Intimate Lives of Arabic Calligraphy

Jim Quilty

Reema Salha Fadda

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.

Grey Noise Gallery

Vartan Avakian at Marfa’

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

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

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

Mirene Arsanios

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

Batroun Projects

Dalia Khamissy

Cecilia Andersson

Zoukak Theatre Company

When Buildings Become Part of the Record

Omar Kholeif

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

Tinkerings on the Instable Present Tense

Looking for Palestine in the Jordanian Music Scene

Atfal Ahdath at Running Horse Contemporary

'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 -...

Dictaphone Group is a collaboration between performance artist Tania El Khoury and urban researcher architect Abir Saksouk-Sasso, whose aim is to research specific urban spaces in Lebanon. Issues of public space and public amenities, or indeed the lack thereof in Beirut, come to the fore in Bus Cemetery, a sound-based...

Nada Sehnaoui, Fractions of Memory 2003, installation. In the world we live in, where public spaces are meagre, artists create visual ideas where the onlooker becomes an active citizen. Installation artist Nada Sehnaoui deals with collective memory and identity, communicated in unused large public areas in Beirut, Lebanon (Fractions of...

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,...

Mark Westmoreland

Edited by Anthony Downey & Lina Lazaar (Ibraaz Publishing, 2011)

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Pattern Recognition: Ramallah

RE/viewing Jerusalem #2 – REturn: Jerusalem

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

This Sea is Mine: Gaza

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

Partner institutions

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Adonis in conversation with Laura Allsop

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Christine Tohme in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nada Sehnaoui in conversation with Laura Allsop

Tom Bogaert in conversation with Anthony Downey

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Pascal Hachem in conversation with Nour K Sacranie

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Cynthia Zaven in conversation with Basak Senova

Simone Fattal in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

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

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Marie-Monique Steckel in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 2: Details

A Question: Jalal Toufic

Online exhibition catalogue

Joe Namy: space, breath, time

Samah Hijawi: Paradise Series

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

Bent Jbeil: Wael Shawky

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Rasha Salti in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson

Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

Matthias Lilienthal in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lara Khaldi in conversation with Ghalya Saadawi

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Lawrence Abu Hamdan in conversation with Anthony Downey

Seth Ayyaz in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Farah Saleh in conversation with Marianna Liosi

Maya Zbib in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou

Dia Azzawi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

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

Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra

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

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

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

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Raed Yassin in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Discussing arts infrastructure in Tehran

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Foundland in conversation with Nat Muller

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part II

Younes Bouadi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

Eric Baudelaire in conversation with Anthony Downey

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

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

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Sharjah Art Foundation, 17-19 March 2012

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

Ibraaz

Sheyma Buali

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Future Imperfect, A Symposium

09–11 May, Museé National du Bardo, Tunis

Gregory Sholette at Home Workspace Program

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

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

Ibraaz

Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Listening

Okwui Enwezor: in conversation with Anthony Downey

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

Wael Shawky

Dictaphone group

Christodoulos Panayiotou

A Hero Never Dies: Wissam Charaf

Short Wave/Long Wave: Vartan Avakian

Saving Face: Jalal Toufic

Paris Without a Sea: Mounira Al Solh

Etel Adnan

Mithkal Alzghair

Yaman (2016)

Fade to Black (2015)

Amer AlBarzawi

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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Contour Biennale 8

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

Reflections on Reflections

Rayyane Tabet at Museo Marino Marini

The Artist as Awakener at AUB

Nicola Baird

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

On Assumption and Authority

An Introduction to Platform 010

KVS Theater in Brussels

Six Short Stories on Arabic Voice Acting

Samah Hijawi

An Ode to Performing Subjectivity in Research

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

Interventions as Performative Gestures For Political Engagement in Jordan

Practice, Performance, Politics

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

'A few notes on the difference between performance art and mayonnaise...'

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

Franco Berardi

'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

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

Conflicting Narratives and the Invention of Geographies

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

Building Institutions Through Practice

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Mounira Al Solh at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut

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

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

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

The Sharjah Art Foundation's 2014 March Meeting

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

HIWAR | Conversations in Amman

Oreet Ashery

Mounira Al Solh

Caline Aoun

Mohamed Abdelkarim

Mahmoud Khaled

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

Notes from three spaces in which the law resounds

On the Rooftop

Cynthia Zaven

Mahmoud Khaled

Roy Samaha

A project by Tom Bogaert for Ibraaz

Two Projects by Sinisa Vlajkovic

Isak Berbic

A Project by Saba Innab

A Project by Dictaphone Group

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

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Marwa Arsanios

Projects 'Graphic Witness' at Drawing Room, London 010 / 16 June 2017 When images of conflict and protest can be so easily captured on mobile devices, why translate them into graphic representations? How does the translation into graphic form change the act of witnessing, fabricate commentaries on instances of injustice,...

Maya Chami

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

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

Written by Mayssa Fattouh

Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi

An Online Performance

Seth Ayyaz

Joe Namy

Helene Kazan

Samah Hijawi

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...

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

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

Waterside Contemporary

The Encyclopedic Palace

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice

Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers

Ibraaz Platform 005 Editorial

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

Gulf Labor

Refraction: Moving Images on Palestine at P21 Gallery

It stipulates in my working contract as a professor in Middle East history at Leiden University that I must participate in 'media outreach'. This means that I must either seek out media outlets and contribute to a particular conversation about the Middle East, or, if contacted by a media representative,...

A new book has surfaced on the shelves of Lebanese and possibly Arab bookstores. The title reads: Pure Nostalgia . As in Exclusive Nostalgia, as in free from this contaminated present . The emergence of this publication is perhaps symptomatic of something larger than a trivial nostalgia quenched by the...

Jens Maier-Rothe

Artists have for some time been using new media to investigate and question their mainstream socio-political environments. In Arab countries, the revolutions that took place are a direct expression of this process's shift from the art community to the mass, from the artist to the public. It was a mutation...

An Introduction

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

Anthony Downey

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

For a Polysemic Reading of Both City and Territory

On-longing: A Project by Saba Innab

Home Workspace: A Conversation Between Christine Tohme and Anthony Downey

Yazid Anani

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

Samah Hijawi Documents for a Narrative of Art History of Jordan, 2010-ongoing M ulti-media project Video excerpt, 1'40" Courtesy of the artist This ongoing research project is concerned with different aspects that have influenced the development of visual art practices in Jordan over the last 60 years. It uses multi-media...

Two-Hundred and Thirty Three What can I say In order to be vigilant? How do I organize pessimism Into surviving fireflies? What and where are these images, Like germs germinating, Gestating in the belly of some vowel That lingers after all horizons are Gone ...

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