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Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

News from the Arab World reaches western audiences on a daily basis. The various analogue and online formats of media – TV, radio, newspapers, and blogs – are extensively reporting on the events in this region. In Berlin, and certainly elsewhere in Europe, cultural institutions and festivals reacted very quickly...

O Whale, Don't Swallow Our Moon: Ramallah

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Lina Lazaar

A roundtable discussion

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Ala Younis in conversation with Liane Al-Ghusain

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Yuko Hasegawa in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo and Stephanie Bailey

Marie-Monique Steckel in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Curator's Introduction

Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

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

Farah Saleh in conversation with Marianna Liosi

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Dia Azzawi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Eric Van Hove in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Jonas Staal in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Adelina von Fürstenberg in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad

Rifat Chadirji and Balkis Sharara in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

Leila Al-Shami: Emerging from ‘The Kingdom of Silence’ | Beyond Institutions in Revolutionary Syria

The Cairo Seminar in Alexandria, dOCUMENTA (13)

Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

Tom Snow

On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’

A Report from Cologne

Shiva Balaghi: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Okwui Enwezor: in conversation with Anthony Downey

John Akomfrah: in conversation with Anthony Downey

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

Ibn Khaldun’s The Muqadimmah

Filipa César and Louis Henderson

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Contour Biennale 8

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Edmund Clark at the Imperial War Museum, London

The Sketches of Mahmoud Al Rifai at FADA 317

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Rozemin Keshvani

Participatory Art in the Middle East

The 37th EVA International

On Assumption and Authority

Forests, Freaks and Performativity

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.

Tehran’s Self-portrait

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Ahmad Makia

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Interventions as Performative Gestures For Political Engagement in Jordan

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

Lara Khaldi

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

Contemporary Cinema from North Africa

Natasha Ginwala

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

Portrait of a Salafi en abyme in the Cyber World

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

A Provocation to the Question

Conflicting Narratives and the Invention of Geographies

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

An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

In the Shadow of Nasser

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

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

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

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

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

A Review

Taus Makhacheva

Monira Al Qadiri

A Story of an Exhibition

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

The Search for 'Nurafkan'

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

Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss

Amy Charlesworth

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

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

Gulf Labor

Introduction

Artistic Practices, Collective Action and Civil Society in Tunisia

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

Yazid Anani

The question 'What do we need to know about the MENA region today?' triggered a series of questions from my part. My contribution will be these questions; the aim is to start a game of Q&Q (instead of a Q&A) with no rules and no time limits. Who is this...

One needs to be careful with the concept of regions as geographical entities. Such an understanding is only valuable if it takes into account the way these regions relate to their neighbours, as frontiers are still too often frontiers of misunderstanding. The Middle East, like North Africa or the so-called...

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation