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

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part II

Nour K Sacranie

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

A Slavs and Tatars Panel Discussion at Art Space Pythagorion

A Report on Future City

Gregory Sholette at Home Workspace Program

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

Crisis The End of Pearling in the Gulf (Qatar)

Nick Denes: Researcher

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Ala Younis

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

An Ode to Performing Subjectivity in Research

This research-based response marks the beginning of a collaborative project undertaken by Clare Davies and Nida Ghouse that considers histories of artistic production in relation to the concept of metanoia.

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

The Search for 'Nurafkan'

On Shuruq Harb's The Keeper

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

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

Saloua Raouda Choucair, Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at Tate Modern

One major obstacle for a diverse art scene in a country or region is the lack of artistic infrastructure with institutions that offer support for artistic research and the production of independent, non-market-related work. During the past decade, most countries in the MENA region have seen the establishment of independent,...

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...

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...

When we began our research into the current art landscape of the Middle East, we noticed various reasons why the bonds between regional art communities are weakened. Prevailing art discourses are largely externally driven; the way in which art is circulated, marketed and publicised doesn't respond in any significant way...

One of the important developments required in the region is the expansion of a critical discourse on local artistic practices. It is crucial to gain an in-depth understanding of the various generations of art practitioners, through detailed studies of their work in relation to the relevant contexts and debates. Research...

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...

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

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

Acknowledgements

ARC.HIVE (2006–present): Adham Hafez

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

Ismaïl Bahri in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Shezad Dawood in conversation with Sara Raza

Christine Tohme in conversation with Anthony Downey

Michket Krifa in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Ala Ebtekar in conversation with Sara Raza

Tom Bogaert in conversation with Anthony Downey

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Jeanno Gaussi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Chapter 1: Intensities

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jasmina Metwaly in conversation with Angela Harutyunyan

Wafaa Bilal in conversation with Sara Raza

Ala Younis in conversation with Liane Al-Ghusain

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Pascal Hachem in conversation with Nour K Sacranie

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Visualizing Palestine in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jeremy Hutchison in conversation with Natasha Hoare

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

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Chapter 7: Fabric

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 4: Measures

Chapter 2: Details

Editor's Foreword: Anthony Downey

Introduction: Basak Senova

Acknowledgements

Magdi Mostafa: Wisdom Tower: from the series Sound Cells (Fridays)

Samah Hijawi: Paradise Series

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

Curator's Introduction

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Looking at Wafaa Bilal's Domestic Tension : Barrak Alzaid

Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with Ala Younis

Bent Jbeil: Wael Shawky

OLGA'S NOTES, all those restless bodies: Marwa Arsanios

Dream City in Tunis

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Lidia Al-Qattan in conversation with Monira Al Qadiri

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Magdi Mostafa in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Introduction

Farah Al-Nakib in conversation with Todd Reisz

Closing Remarks

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Randa Mirza in conversation with Amira Gad

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson

Alya Sebti in conversation with Göksu Kunak

UBIK in conversation with Isabella Ellaheh Hughes

Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Online exhibition catalogue

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Taysir Batniji in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Matthias Lilienthal in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lara Khaldi in conversation with Ghalya Saadawi

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Adelita Husni-Bey in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

Mounira al Solh in conversation with Nat Muller

Hiwa K in conversation with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lawrence Abu Hamdan in conversation with Anthony Downey

Seth Ayyaz in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Farah Saleh in conversation with Marianna Liosi

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

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

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

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Sumesh Sharma in conversation with Amanprit Sandhu

Aikaterini Gegisian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Anthony Downey and Beatrix Ruf in conversation with Slavs and Tatars

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Jonas Staal in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

November Paynter and Didem Pekün in conversation with Basak Senova

Köken Ergun in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Mai Elwakil in conversation with Daniella Rose King

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi

Tarek Atoui in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Burak Arıkan in conversation with Basak Senova

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Raed Yassin in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Discussing arts infrastructure in Tehran

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

Mona Marzouk in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Rana Hamadeh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Joe Namy in conversation with Garine Aivazian

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

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

Wael Shawky in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Ayşe Erkmen in conversation with Basak Senova

Georgia Kotretsos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

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

Kim Beamish in conversation with Sam Bowker

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

Younes Bouadi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad

Rifat Chadirji and Balkis Sharara in conversation with Amin Alsaden

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

Lamia Joreige in conversation with Anthony Downey

Christine Tohme in conversation with Rachel Dedman

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

Héla Ammar in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

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

Alia Rayyan: Recounting the Past, Present and Future

Hussam al-Saray: in conversation with Ala Younis | A Cultural Encyclopaedia of Iraq

Monira Al Qadiri: The Saudi New Wave | Digital Landscapes and Future Institutions

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

Samiha Khalil

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

Coline Milliard

Nour K Sacranie

Charlotte Bank

Sara Raza

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Notes from a roundtable discussion on the state of the arts in Egypt

A roundtable discussion at Tate Modern contemplates the role of alternative education

An Artist-Run Gallery Space in Cairo

Ibraaz in partnership with Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art

The role of the archive in critical and culturally located art histories

The second meeting of Maghreb des Arts

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Decolonizing Architecture at Tate Modern

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...

Reema Salha Fadda

Ibraaz

Theme: Performance

Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

Tom Snow

Ibraaz

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...

Online exhibition catalogue

Online exhibition catalogue

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Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

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London book launch: 19 November, 18:30, Rivington Place

William Wells in conversation at Serpentine Galleries

A Report from the AUC

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

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Işıl Eğrikavuk's The Art of Disagreement

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Two Exhibitions on the Armenian Legacy in Anatolia

A Report from Cologne

Videobrasil

Ibraaz

At the Salzburger Kunstverein

Aimee Dawson

Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Listening

Language Arts at The Third Line

Live

Shiva Balaghi: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Todd Reisz: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Okwui Enwezor: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Adam Szymczyk: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

John Akomfrah: in conversation with Anthony Downey

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

Ibn Khaldun’s The Muqadimmah

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

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

Tania El Khoury

Aaron Cezar, Delfina Foundation

Wael Shawky

Dictaphone group

Işıl Eğrikavuk

The Future Was a Roundabout

The Future Was Global/Art/Forum

The Future Was Underwater

Ibraaz

Christodoulos Panayiotou

Zoukak Theatre Company

Tania El Khoury

Louis Henderson

Tom Bogaert

Kim Beamish

Debra Levine: Toward A Common Satisfaction of Needs

Neha Vora: Warehouse as Dubai's Cultural Heritage

A web series by Oreet Ashery

Heba Y. Amin

Filipa César and Louis Henderson

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

Mithkal Alzghair

Martyrs of the Egyptian Revolution: December 2011

Council presents: The Against Nature Journal

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Trace Environments: Sovereignty, toxicity and the littoral

Contour Biennale 8 / DAI Roaming Assembly #12

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Cevdet Erek in conversation with Başak Şenova

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,...

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Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Reema Salha Fadda

Contour Biennale 8

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

Yazan Ashqar

Meeting Points 8

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Negative Ecstasy at Dirimart, Istanbul

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

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

Natasha Marie Llorens

Katia Kameli at the Mosaic Rooms

Closing Remarks

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Reflections on Reflections

Edmund Clark at the Imperial War Museum, London

The Sketches of Mahmoud Al Rifai at FADA 317

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

The Artist as Awakener at AUB

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

At Ab Anbar Gallery

Rozemin Keshvani

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

Participatory Art in the Middle East

The 37th EVA International

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

Forests, Freaks and Performativity

An Introduction to Platform 010

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

Barrak Alzaid

The varying political, cultural and economic circumstances of the participants of Art Dubai 2016, Design Days and the March Meeting, merit further consideration, as it is the differences among them that highlight the current constraints and opportunities for cultural production in the region.

As a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle Eastern art, I am concerned with the urgent questions facing cultural production as well as those facing histories of cultural production. My response below reflects that concern.

Of course, I do not wish to be misunderstood as arguing for nativism or closure. But the specific history of the region matters deeply, as factual evidence, but even more so in terms of identifying resources that can be transformed and activated in new ways today.

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

The development of a healthy regional Arab art scene, like anywhere else in the world, requires the collaborative efforts of the different components that constitute it.

Anthony Downey

Earshot by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Portikus, Frankfurt

Choreographing Spaces of Gesticulation

Six Short Stories on Arabic Voice Acting

Rana Hamadeh at The Showroom, London

Genealogy of a Territory at MuCEM, Marseille

Green Art Gallery

Ahmad Makia

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

An Alternative Genealogy of Musique Concrète

Shady El Noshokaty at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo

Vartan Avakian at Marfa’

The performative in the work of Hassan Khan

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

Jumana Manna at Chisenhale Gallery, London

The Subversive Feminine

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

The 13th Biennale de Lyon

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

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Practice, Performance, Politics

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

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

Lara Khaldi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

'Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity' at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

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

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Natasha Ginwala

Notes on a Giant Implosion

Monira Al Qadiri

Lantian Xie at Grey Noise

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

Five Stages of an Artist Residency

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

On the Work of Basma Alsharif

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

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.

Embroiderers of Actuality is an action that aims to be a sensible provocation: a visual discussion about the position of women in the society.

The term 'Global South' is quite new to me – but since my practice is concerned with the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and the impact colonialism has on today's power structures I find it obvious that the concept of the 'Global South' is of great relevance in my...

The group of paintings is inspired by 'momentary images' or more accurately frozen moments taken from the contemporary cityscape of Egypt, as well as from personal records; old photographs found in family albums.

In the years that followed the destruction of the Berlin Wall, which triggered the rise of post-colonial studies, the definition of the term 'the Global South' has changed dramatically.

Conflicting Narratives and the Invention of Geographies

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

An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf

Burak Delier

A Recourse to the Past

Building Institutions Through Practice

A Yemeni Art History

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

From the Intimate to the World

Le Dessous des Ratures (Beneath the Crossings Out)

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

In the Shadow of Nasser

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

Global Art Forum 8 at Katara Art Center

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Burak Delier at Iniva

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

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

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

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

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

'By producing an idea of the future, art transgresses official history and produces its own reality.'

'I suggest that we look at the past and present strengths of cultural organizations, which have always served social and informational purposes, regardless of region and time. It is in these two spheres that the future resides.'

'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.'

Slavs and Tatars at The Third Line

Maryam Jafri at Gasworks

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

The Sharjah Art Foundation's 2014 March Meeting

The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation

Haleh Redjaian at Arratia Beer

A Review

HIWAR | Conversations in Amman

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

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

Eric Baudelaire

Basma Alsharif

Mounira Al Solh

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan

Youmna Chlala

Uriel Orlow

Leung Chi Wo

Shezad Dawood

Mohamed Fariji

Isak Berbic

Mohamed Abdelkarim

Mahmoud Khaled

Azin Feizabadi

Monira Al Qadiri

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg

Setareh Shahbazi

Notes from three spaces in which the law resounds

A project by Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

A project by Katia Kameli

A Story of an Exhibition

The Part about the Bandits Pt.2

A Video Game Mausoleum for Bashar al-Assad

Roy Samaha

A project by Tom Bogaert for Ibraaz

Isak Berbic

A Project by Dictaphone Group

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

A Libyan Diary (Part II) - November 2011

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Marwa Arsanios

Batroun Projects

Francesco Jodice

Cecilia Andersson

A project by Benji Boyadgian

Zamir Suleymanov

The Society of False Witnesses

Morehshin Allahyari

Setareh Shahbazi

On Silence and Noise in Times of Crisis

Maya Chami

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

Tom Bogaert

Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi

An Online Performance

Urok Shirhan

Hasan Hujairi

Helene Kazan

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...

Working with archives is a relatively new development, only recently have artists and institutions had access to archives. In the Middle East in general, the idea of the archive and of history is very vague. Even the idea of archiving, of having an institution that holds an archive, is new.

...one of the main problems with modernity in the Arab World is the lack of credibility, criticality and scrutiny in understanding, presenting, and evaluating its nature and objects.

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...

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

When Buildings Become Part of the Record

The Recordings of the Cosmopolitan

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

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...

Alsi Çavuşoğlu at Delfina Foundation, London

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

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

Waterside Contemporary

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Contemporary Artistic Practice in Iran at a Revolutionary Moment

Gezi Resistance, Public Space and the Counter-monumental

Amy Charlesworth

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

Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers

Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing

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

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

Looking for Palestine in the Jordanian Music Scene

Gulf Labor

Nadia Mounajjed

Refraction: Moving Images on Palestine at P21 Gallery

Atfal Ahdath at Running Horse Contemporary

A Talk and Screening by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

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,...

The excited chatter about unrest and uprisings in the western world has focused particularly on a number of countries in North Africa and in what we here refer to as the Middle East (meaning anything between eighteen to thirty-eight countries according to Wikipedia). In the UK, we have received a...

Introduction

Artistic Practice from Tirana to Tangier

What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011

On the Memory of a Memorial

A New Communal Model

Jens Maier-Rothe

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

Tarek Khoury

Theatre As a Tool of Empowerment

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

Foundland

'Networks have no inside, only radiating connectors. They are all edges. They provide connections but no structure. One does not reside in a network, but rather moves to other points through the edges'. Bruno Latour, 'Some Experiments in Art and Politics', e-flux journal, 03/2011. With the benefit of hindsight, one...

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...

The digitally mediated world operates as a gigantic magnet for centralisation, regulation and control by giving shape to our lives, our languages and bodies. This means that the digital domain is increasingly becoming the very location of politics. I propose the term 'magnetic' as an invitation to re-think audio-visual artwork...

An Introduction

'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 -...

How artistic practices define and negotiate public space is to me the most significant issue in the question posed, which I will begin to discuss in the context of Algiers. The site specific practice of Amina Menia testifies to both the richness of meaning and difficulties of execution endemic to...

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

Ali Benmakhlouf

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

Perceptions of Occupation and Control in Cyprus

For a Polysemic Reading of Both City and Territory

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,...

Home Workspace: A Conversation Between Christine Tohme and Anthony Downey

Yazid Anani

The Enemy Inside Me

Ela Greenberg

Joe Khalil

Mayssa Fattouh

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 ...

Mark Westmoreland

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation

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