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Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Mai Elwakil in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Omar Robert Hamilton

Khaled Hafez

Video documentation: Day 2

Video documentation: Day 1

A Video Installation

A Series of Un-Curated Events: Ramallah

/Tilted/: Ramallah

Shirin Neshat

Ismaïl Bahri in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Jasmina Metwaly in conversation with Angela Harutyunyan

Taysir Batniji in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mounira al Solh in conversation with Nat Muller

Hiwa K in conversation with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf

Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

Larissa Sansour in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

Hamza Halloubi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Reflections 03

Charlotte Bank

Jim Quilty

Larissa Sansour

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Tania El Khoury

Hassan Sharif

Fayçal Baghriche

Anthony Downey: Editor-in-Chief, Ibraaz

Moncef Dhouib: Theatre- and film-maker

Tania El Khoury: Live artist

Rita Alaoui: Artist

Hiwa K.: Artist

Oumaïma Manai: Choreographer

Ghazi Gherairi: Professor of Law, Carthage University

Kamel Lazaar: Founder, Kamel Lazaar Foundation

Adel Abidin: Artist

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: Writer

Antonia Carver: Director, Art Dubai

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Aaron Cezar, Delfina Foundation

Wael Shawky

Doa Aly

Lin Yilin

John Akomfrah: Artist

Zineb Sedira: Artist

Guy Mannes-Abbott: Writer

Nick Denes: Researcher

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Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints

Performances at Echoes & Reverberations

Anas Al-Shaikh

Dictaphone group

Wafaa Bilal

Hiwa K.

Fayçal Baghriche

Bouchra Ouizguen

Nancy Atakan

Negar Behbahani: Irreversible , 2014

Katia Kameli: Untitled (2011)

Atef Berredjem: Living with The Aliens (2011)

Taysir Batniji: Ma Merè, David et Moi (2012)

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Seth Ayyaz

Işıl Eğrikavuk

The Future Was Space Is The Place

The Future Was ZZZZZZZZ

The Future Was a Roundabout

The Future Was Global/Art/Forum

The Future Was Underwater

A Roundtable Discussion from The Middle East Institute

Doa Aly

Khaled Kaddal

Christodoulos Panayiotou

Zoukak Theatre Company

Tania El Khoury

Shirin Neshat

Sondos Shabayek

Louis Henderson

Tom Bogaert

Nat Muller

Kim Beamish

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

Adam Clifton: The Next Really Great Thing: A Discussion of the Next Step in Capital

Debra Levine: Toward A Common Satisfaction of Needs

Kevin Jones: Marketing Presentation for Boxed Branded Plush Toys as Art

Murtaza Vali: 'Arresting Flows, Stacking Forms'

Neha Vora: Warehouse as Dubai's Cultural Heritage

Vikram Divecha

Episode Twelve: Prayer, Aerialist

Episode Five: Archives, Avatars

Episode One

Trailer

A web series by Oreet Ashery

The Outsider

Kauther

Al Intithar : (The Waiting )

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

Mario Rizzi

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

Etel Adnan

Sama Alshaibi

Saad

Dowry for Mahrou: Samira Eskandarfar

Iranian Carpet: Amir Mousavi

Water: Hamed Sahihi

Yellow, Blue, Red: Ali Karim

From Carpet to Celestial Heavens: Hamideh Razavi

A tribute by Gelareh Kiazand

Heba Y. Amin

Farah Saleh

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain

Nation Estate

A Space Exodus

Larissa Sansour

Ammar Al-Beik

Bouchra Khalili

Aikaterini Gegisian and Fatma Çiftçi

Filipa César and Louis Henderson

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

Basir Mahmood

Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium

Mithkal Alzghair

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

Deceptive Authoritarianisms: Between Artificial and Discredited Personhoods

Notes Toward a Theory of Transformative Justice

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

Omar Robert Hamilton

Yaman (2016)

Fade to Black (2015)

Amer AlBarzawi

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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Katia Kameli at the Mosaic Rooms

Hassan Khan at Beirut Art Center

Earshot by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Portikus, Frankfurt

Rana Hamadeh at The Showroom, London

The Performance of Death in a Post-9/11 World

Maraya Art Centre

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

Portrait of a Salafi en abyme in the Cyber World

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.

From the Intimate to the World

Almagul Menlibayeva

Sarah Abu Abdallah

Oreet Ashery

Santiago Mostyn

Yogesh Barve & Clark House Initiative

Medrar .TV

The Part about the Bandits Pt.2

Sophia Al-Maria

Lasse Lau

Adelita Husni-Bey

A Video Game Mausoleum for Bashar al-Assad

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

An Image of a Revolution

Elevator Advertisements

Dream Homes and Community-building

A Story in Parts

A Project by Anahita Razmi

Nikolaj Larsen

On Presidents & Superheroes

Mahmoud Bakhshi

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Morehshin Allahyari

Setareh Shahbazi

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

Zoukak Theatre Company

Sohrab Kashani

Meriem Bennani

Urok Shirhan

Adham Faramawy

On Shuruq Harb's The Keeper

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

An Exhibition between Cairo and London

Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi at Chisenhale Gallery

The Problem of Nationality

Refraction: Moving Images on Palestine at P21 Gallery

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.

A video by Ali Cherri.

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....

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...

Platform for discussion001 What do we need to know about the MENA region today? Jananne Al-Ani 1 June 2011 Jananne Al-Ani Aerial I, 2011 Stills from Shadow Sites II Single channel digital video Courtesy the artist and the Abraaj Capital Art Prize Photograph by Adrian Warren '> Jananne Al-Ani Aerial...

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

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Sites of Return: Ramallah

O Whale, Don't Swallow Our Moon: Ramallah

Pattern Recognition: 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

This Sea is Mine: Gaza

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

Responses

Acknowledgements

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Exhibition Overview

A roundtable discussion

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Jack Persekian in conversation with Basak Senova

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

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Guy Mannes-Abbott in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Jeanno Gaussi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Chapter 1: Intensities

Hassan Khan in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Heiko Lange in conversation with Amira Gad

Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Abbas Akhavan in conversation with Anthony Downey

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

Cynthia Zaven in conversation with Basak Senova

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Visualizing Palestine in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 2: Details

A Question: Jalal Toufic

Preface: Jack Persekian

Basma Alsharif: We Began by Measuring Distance

Jumana Emil Abboud: A Happy Ending, Part II

Anas Al-Shaikh: My land, 2

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

Curator's Introduction

Looking at Wafaa Bilal's Domestic Tension : Barrak Alzaid

Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with Ala Younis

End of War in Iraq: The Yes Men and Steve Lambert

Performance documentation: Lin Yilin

Chic Point Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints: Sharif Waked

Bent Jbeil: Wael Shawky

Variation on Discord and Divisions: Mona Hatoum

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

A Tress of Hair: Doa Aly

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Magdi Mostafa in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Programme / Schedule

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Introduction

Closing Remarks

Meriem Bennani in conversation with Myriam Ben Salah

Online Programme

Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation with Sarah Abu Abdallah

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Randa Mirza in conversation with Amira Gad

UBIK in conversation with Isabella Ellaheh Hughes

Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Online exhibition catalogue

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

Sussan Deyhim in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Lara Khaldi in conversation with Ghalya Saadawi

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Adelita Husni-Bey in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Lawrence Abu Hamdan in conversation with Anthony Downey

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

Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Raed Yassin

Yael Bartana in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Anthony Downey

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Sumesh Sharma in conversation with Amanprit Sandhu

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

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

November Paynter and Didem Pekün in conversation with Basak Senova

Köken Ergun in conversation with Omar Kholeif

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Raed Yassin in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Mona Marzouk in conversation with Aleya Hamza

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

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

Wael Shawky in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Carole Alfarah in conversation with María Gómez López

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

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Tarek Abou El Fetouh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

Lamia Joreige in conversation with Anthony Downey

Christine Tohme in conversation with Rachel Dedman

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

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

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

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Chkoun Ahna at the National Museum of Carthage, Tunis, 2012

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Fawz Kabra

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Coline Milliard

Nour K Sacranie

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Sara Raza

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Malu Halasa

Two Exhibitions in Paris

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

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Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

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Ibraaz in partnership with Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art

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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

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Theme: Performance

Tom Snow

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Online exhibition catalogue

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Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Basak Senova

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

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The 2016 March Meeting

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Two Exhibitions on the Armenian Legacy in Anatolia

A Report from Cologne

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

Aimee Dawson

Sophia Al-Maria: On Automobiles

Guy Mannes-Abbott: On Drones

Köken Ergun: Lived Experience

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler: Social Imagination

Basim Magdy & Stephanie Bailey: Collective Memory

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

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

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

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Sama Alshaibi

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London book launch

Cevdet Erek in conversation with Başak Şenova

Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Reema Salha Fadda

Contour Biennale 8

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

Lizzy Collier

Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Invisible Architecture in Rana ElNemr’s Streams of Synonyms

Yazan Ashqar

Meeting Points 8

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Notes in a Conversation on a Film by Maha Maamoun

Negative Ecstasy at Dirimart, Istanbul

Natasha Marie Llorens

Nil Yalter at ARTER, Istanbul

Closing Remarks

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Hamid Dabashi

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

Etel Adnan at Serpentine Galleries

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Lara Baladi

The Artist as Awakener at AUB

Walking Cabbages and Watermelons

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

Nicola Baird

The 37th EVA International

On Assumption and Authority

Forests, Freaks and Performativity

An Introduction to Platform 010

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.

Anthony Downey

On Walking and Crawling

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Tehran’s Self-portrait

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

An Ode to Performing Subjectivity in Research

Shady El Noshokaty at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo

Jumana Manna at Chisenhale Gallery, London

The Subversive Feminine

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

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

A Review of the 56th Venice Biennale

'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...'

Practice, Performance, Politics

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

'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...'

'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

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

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Notes on a Giant Implosion

Monira Al Qadiri

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

Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

On the Work of Basma Alsharif

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

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...

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

A Yemeni Art History

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi

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

Can T-Wall Murals really Beautify the Fragmented Baghdad?

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)

Mounira Al Solh at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut

Burak Delier at Iniva

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

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

Maryam Jafri at Gasworks

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

Cevdet Erek at Spike Island, Bristol

Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation

HIWAR | Conversations in Amman

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

Abdullah Al-Mutairi

Malak Helmy and Sophia Al Maria

Eric Baudelaire

Taus Makhacheva

Simohammed Fettaka & Basak Senova

Mounira Al Solh

Rosana Palazyan

Youmna Chlala

Uriel Orlow

Leung Chi Wo

Caline Aoun

Mahmoud Khaled

Azin Feizabadi

Jasmina Metwaly

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg

Notes from three spaces in which the law resounds

A project by Ali Cherri

A project by Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

A project by Maha Maamoun

A project by Katia Kameli

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

Basak Senova on Zeren Göktan's Counter (2013)

Hans Haacke

Cynthia Zaven

Mahmoud Khaled

Roy Samaha

A project by Tom Bogaert for Ibraaz

Continuing Traditions of Satire, Art and the Struggle for Freedom in Syria

A project by Fayçal Baghriche

Transition, a photographic series by Myriam Abdelaziz

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

A Libyan Diary (Part III) - December 2011

A Libyan Diary (Part II) - November 2011

Lina Khatib

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Marwa Arsanios

Francesco Jodice

Cecilia Andersson

Zamir Suleymanov

The Society of False Witnesses

Basma Alsharif

On Silence and Noise in Times of Crisis

Dena Al-Adeeb

Maya Chami

Tom Bogaert

Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind

An Online Performance

Seth Ayyaz

Hassan Khan

Joe Namy

Helene Kazan

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.

I envision the liberation of an archive (from attachment to a person, state, or region) through its transfiguration into a database. This emancipation requires dematerialization and displacement.

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 Search for 'Nurafkan'

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

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha and the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore

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

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

An I for an Eye and Death of a Cameraman

The 4th Thessaloniki Biennale

The 13th Istanbul Biennial

Waterside Contemporary

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Contemporary Artistic Practice in Iran at a Revolutionary Moment

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

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice

Profiles: Collecting Art in Lebanon at AUB Gallery, Lebanon

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Gezi Resistance, Public Space and the Counter-monumental

Iraq and Palestine at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Tinkerings on the Instable Present Tense

Hauser & Wirth / Alan Cristea Gallery: A Spectrum Review

Gezira Art Center, Cairo

Amy Charlesworth

Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing

Sharjah Biennial 11 – Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Basim Magdy at Newman Popiashvili

Atfal Ahdath at Running Horse Contemporary

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

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...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the word 'demand' seems to be the key word of the poll. In relation to a 'globalised cultural economy' it refers to the core term of economics that is used to rationalise the development of prices. Talking about 'demands of news media, journalism, cultural...

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.

Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

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

The Impossibilities of Production in New Media

Tarek Khoury

Theatre As a Tool of Empowerment

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

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,...

Platform for discussion002 What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? Taysir Batniji 1 November 2011 Taysir Batniji Sans titre (Sénégal) 74, 2003 Photograph Courtesy of the artist '> Taysir Batniji Sans titre (Sénégal) 74, 2003 Photograph Courtesy of the artist '> Taysir Batniji Sans titre...

Platform for discussion002 What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? Haig Aivazian 1 November 2011 The Unimaginable Things We Build is a multi-part project exploring the evolution of the rhetoric surrounding, and material state of, the tallest man-made structure in the world, Dubai's Burj Khalifa....

Cardboards are leaned against a wall in a street. They form a peculiar assemblage one can identify as makeshift shelters. Fashioned out of the detritus of consumer society, the cardboards have become facades. They conceal women who were probably repudiated by their families. One of them emerges from her 'house'...

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...

The Enemy Inside Me

Ela Greenberg

Joe Khalil

Rachida Triki

Mayssa Fattouh

Mark Westmoreland

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation

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