Tunisia

Tunisia: Dynamic & Vigilant
One year after the Revolution, the Tunisian visual art scene is experiencing a mutation in which action and vigilance predominate.
By Rachida Triki
February 2012

Tunisia

Never Afraid! But of Whom?
Critical thoughts from Tunisia: changing mentalities as a prerequisite for democracy.
By Mohamed Ben Soltane
March 2011

27 - 29 October 2010
Egypt

Speak, Memory
About the symposium in Cairo on archives and other strategies of (re)activation of cultural memory.
By Laura Carderera
November 2010

Are Images Global?
Definition and translation in relation to local and global understandings of art from the Middle East.
By Nada Shabout
August 2009

Reading (and Curating) from Right to Left
About the urgency to engage with difference as an on-going process.
By Gilane Tawadros
August 2009

Lebanon

Whiteness: A Snapshot of Envy
Los Angeles, Beirut, Kabul… what do our cameras capture of these cities?
By Bilal Khbeiz
November 2008

AMCA
Interview with Nada Shabout, president and founding member of the organization, founded in 2007.
By Haupt & Binder
September 2008

Morocco

Hermitage Park Controversy
Artists of La Source du Lion take actions against the new masterplan for the park in Casablanca.
By Helen Adkins
March 2008

Indonesia

The Babbling Art
Does art play any role for people? Controversial reflections on the example of Indonesia.
By Antariksa
September 2007

Doc12 Magazines Mania
A Southeast Asian critique of the Documenta 12 magazines project.
By Kean Wong
September 2007

Lebanon

Scandalously incapacitated
We are scandalously incapacitated before the camera; essay.
By Bilal Khbeiz
June 2005

Egypt

Art Scene & Curators in Egypt
Interview with the independent curator Mai Abu ElDahab on current developments in Egypt.
By Haupt & Binder
March 2005

Iran

Rose Issa - Interview
The curator of "Far Near Distance" about the ambivalence of the new interest in art from the Islamic world.
By Haupt & Binder
March 2004

Curating the Middle East
From Napoleon to the present day. Critical remarks on an historical background.
By Gilane Tawadros
February 2004

Egypt

Walk like an Egyptian
Remarks on the lack of differentiation in the representation of contemporary Egyptian art.
By Basim Magdy
September 2003