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Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

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

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Raed Yassin

Aikaterini Gegisian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Georgia Kotretsos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Carole Alfarah in conversation with María Gómez López

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part II

Rifat Chadirji and Balkis Sharara in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Coline Milliard

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

Tarek Al-Ghoussein at Galerie Brigitte Schenk

Tehran’s Self-portrait

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

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

Five Stages of an Artist Residency

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

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

Georgia Kotretsos: SPRING CLEANING and KARFI in Rabat

(The Differences Between The Parts Are The Subject of The Composition)

Taus Makhacheva

Malak Helmy

Yogesh Barve & Clark House Initiative

Nikolaj Larsen

Mounira Al Solh

Youmna Chlala

Aikaterini Gegisian

Mahmoud Khaled

Iman Issa

Adelita Husni-Bey

Setareh Shahbazi

A project by Ali Cherri

A project by Katia Kameli

The Part about the Bandits Pt.2

Dream Homes and Community-building

Two Projects by Sinisa Vlajkovic

Dalia Khamissy

Shadi Habib Allah

Kamal Aljafari

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

Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi

Joe Namy

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

An I for an Eye and Death of a Cameraman

Reflections from a book on South Sinai

Platform for discussion002 What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? Anahita Razmi 1 November 2011 Anahita Razmi White Wall Tehran, 2007 Video, 0'49' Courtesy of the artist Anahita Razmi --> Anahita Razmi is an artist based in Stuttgart, Germany, working with video, photography and installation....

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...

Walking in the Darkness of a Promised Light

Sites of Return: 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: Gaza

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

Shirin Neshat

A roundtable discussion

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

Jack Persekian in conversation with Basak Senova

Michket Krifa in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Driss Ouadahi in conversation with Rachida Triki

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Chapter 1: Intensities

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Anthony Downey

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Wafaa Bilal in conversation with Sara Raza

Cynthia Zaven in conversation with Basak Senova

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

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

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Chapter 7: Fabric

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 2: Details

Preface: Jack Persekian

Curator's Introduction

Hair and Milk Bottle: Hassan Sharif

Crossing Surda (a record of going to and from work): Emily Jacir

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Randa Mirza in conversation with Amira Gad

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Taysir Batniji in conversation with Silke Schmickl

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Sussan Deyhim in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Seth Ayyaz in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou

Özgür Uçkan and Vasif Kortun in conversation with Basak Senova

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Timo Nasseri in conversation with Laura Allsop

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

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

November Paynter and Didem Pekün in conversation with Basak Senova

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi

Ahd in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Burak Arıkan in conversation with Basak Senova

Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Joe Namy in conversation with Garine Aivazian

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Ayşe Erkmen in conversation with Basak Senova

Larissa Sansour in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Foundland in conversation with Nat Muller

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

Lamia Joreige in conversation with Anthony Downey

Héla Ammar in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Meriç Algün Ringborg in conversation with Nora Razian

Amar Kanwar in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Eric Baudelaire in conversation with Anthony Downey

Alia Rayyan: Recounting the Past, Present and Future

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

Malu Halasa

Ibraaz

Theme: Performance

Ibraaz

Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

William Wells in conversation at Serpentine Galleries

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

Işıl Eğrikavuk's The Art of Disagreement

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

Larissa Sansour

Trevor Paglen: Aesthetics

Burak Arikan & Başak Şenova: Network Data

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

Nancy Atakan

Katia Kameli: Untitled (2011)

Shirin Neshat

Episode Twelve: Prayer, Aerialist

Episode Five: Archives, Avatars

Episode One

Trailer

A web series by Oreet Ashery

Short Wave/Long Wave: Vartan Avakian

Beau Geste: Yto Barrada

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain

Nation Estate

A Space Exodus

Larissa Sansour

Bouchra Khalili

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Cevdet Erek in conversation with Başak Şenova

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

Ala Younis

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Invisible Architecture in Rana ElNemr’s Streams of Synonyms

Meeting Points 8

Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Lara Baladi

Nicola Baird

On Assumption and Authority

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

Grey Noise Gallery

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

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

Vartan Avakian at Marfa’

The Subversive Feminine

'Mixed Media I (2009) is a list of 50 pages of technical descriptions of contemporary art pieces. The list, made up of automatic extractions of data about techniques used in contemporary art practices, is a multi-format, translatable database...'

'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...'

'To avoid misunderstanding, I write from the perspective of Turkey, because I can't really speak for North Africa nor for the Middle East in general...'

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

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

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.

A Recourse to the Past

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

A Yemeni Art History

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Le Dessous des Ratures (Beneath the Crossings Out)

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

'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.'

Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS

Oreet Ashery

Eric Baudelaire

Simohammed Fettaka & Basak Senova

Uriel Orlow

Leung Chi Wo

Isak Berbic

Wafaa Bilal at Maraya Art Park, Sharjah

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg

Basak Senova on Zeren Göktan's Counter (2013)

Cynthia Zaven

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

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Mahmoud Khaled

Roy Samaha

Transition, a photographic series by Myriam Abdelaziz

Isak Berbic

Francesco Jodice

Cecilia Andersson

A project by Benji Boyadgian

Zamir Suleymanov

Basma Alsharif

Dena Al-Adeeb

Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind

Helene Kazan

The conceptual turn of the 1970s gave full legitimacy to queries into the document and the archive. Issues of memory become the favourite material of contemporary artists. Yet, in Tunisia, we missed the conceptual turn of the 1970s – it took us until the start of the revolution in 2011...

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 Soldier: 'Indeed, I took these photographs from the pocket of a dead Arab, killed in Bab Al-Wad in the beginning of May 1948.

On Shuruq Harb's The Keeper

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

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

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

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Meem Gallery, Dubai

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice

Gezira Art Center, Cairo

Amy Charlesworth

Refraction: Moving Images on Palestine at P21 Gallery

Atfal Ahdath at Running Horse Contemporary

In the globalised world we live in, I feel that creating the image of an enemy becomes a difficult task. It becomes difficult to name and make symbols for an enemy – an abstract 'evil' – since things are never abstract, but always and at any time connected and related.

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

A New Communal Model

Jens Maier-Rothe

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

The Impossibilities of Production in New Media

Tarek Khoury

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

Shining a spotlight on something in order to 'make it visible' is a task indeed. It does not only entail personal and professional risk but also demands courage and responsibility. The ethics of monstration (on behalf of those whose intention is precisely that - to make sense of vision, to...

Digitised media in the last decade has undoubtedly been propelled by the enormous speed of new technology and spontaneous platforms for rights, defined by Hakim Bey as 'Temporary Autonomous Zones' and 'network guerrillas' by Ozgur Uckan. Consequently, despite the mediated content of the mainstream media, social media sites have emerged...

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

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....

Writing on the Walls: Transition, A Photographic Series by Myriam Abdelaziz

Anthony Downey

Perceptions of Occupation and Control in Cyprus

When Umru' al-Qais stood by the traces of the tent of his beloved in the middle of the desert of Hijaz, he shed tears that became the key to Arab poetry. Until recently, no one could have guessed that those tents would one day be made of concrete. These days,...

The Past is Another Country: Two Projects by Sinisa Vlajkovic

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...

Raymond Baker

People only ever have the degree of freedom that their audacity wins from fear. Les peuples n'ont jamais que le degré de liberté que leur audace conquiert sur la peur. Stendhal

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