Middle-East

In this deeply personal volume, Simone Fattal's close friend and confidante Hans Ulrich Obrist delves into the artist's past to explore the remarkable breadth of her body of work.

Monograph based a project across multiple mediums, finding its primary reference in the Majnoon oil field of southern Iraq.

Retrospective monograph.

The cultural and political legacies of the the 1933 and 1934 Arab Exhibitions in Jerusalem.

The images shot on Egyptian film sets by prominent photographer Fouad ElKoury over more than a decade capture the essence of Arab cinema.

A revelatory conversation that, grounded in lived experience, traces the racist structures of the discourse landscape and offers alternative ways of understanding solidarity.

A lyrical portrait of Lebanon through the poetry of 60 native women authors.

Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi's first artist's book.

A series of recordings that unveils the diverse creativity of young Turkish female artists.

This volume collects six fables Lin May Saeed (1973–2023) wrote in the early 2000s—the only ones the artist ever shared—which explore fundamental issues of interspecies coexistence, combining scientific, ethical, and philosophical motivations.

The trip to Saudi Arabia by photographer Giovanna Silva and curator Emilia Giorgi.

First comprehensive monograph: in-depth survey of İpek Duben's oeuvre spanning more than four decades.

The catalogue of the Turkish Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2024.

Published on the occasion of Mudun Short Story Prize, an international competition that pays tribute to cities around the Arab world which was launched by the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah (UAE), Mudun: Stories from Arab Cities brings together the 19 stories—10 in Arabic and nine in English—that were shortlisted for the prize, including the winning submissions.

This critical biography guides readers through artist Magda Stawarska's practice via a series of journeys—from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice and across the waters of Zanzibar.

The catalog for 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, under the artistic direction of Ute Meta Bauer, featuring some one hundred artists of different generations: a testament of a unique moment within a changing Saudi Arabian cultural ecosystem.

Accompanying Abdullah Al Saadi's eponymous solo exhibition at the National Pavilion UAE at the 60th International Venice Biennale, this publication invites an immersion into the artist's singularly subjective universe.

New monograph.

A comprehensive overview of the Emirati artist's practice, with numerous archive documents.

Spanning a pivotal time in Arab art, from the 1950s through to the 1980s, this book celebrates the lives, careers, and personas of some of the region's pioneering artists (from Huguette Caland to Hamed Nada and Etel Adnan) and features archival material, images of artworks as well as of the artists themselves.

The story of the Galerie Janine Rubeiz, a major venue on Beirut's cultural and artistic scene.

The second installment in the Dongola Architecture Series, dedicated to the great voices of contemporary architecture in the Arab culture, delves into the life and work of the distinguished Syrian architect and architecture historian Nasser Rabbat.

A kino-political theory of the 21st century.

The publication is the first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri. It aims to highlight the constellation of ideas, themes, and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects.

A live, raw, collective sound by Maurice Louca & his band Elephantine.

The first monographic overview publication of the work of Iranian artist Farkhondeh Shahroudi.

The fourth volume in a series that documents Tarek Atoui's project Waters' Witness, created in collaboration with French photographer and Atoui's long-term collaborator, Alexandre Guirkinger, is intended as a visual embodiment of the work's development for Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

First monograph of the Franco-Iranian artist.

Repress of the Lebanese trio's 2014 album, born from Raed Yassin and Charbel Haber's love for the music of quintessential Egyptian guitarist Omar Khorshid, disassembling and re-configuring the work and style of the iconic guitarist's innovative take on Arabic music.

Catalogue of an exhibition centered on the work of the artist and writer Helen Khal (1923-2009), an influential figure in the Lebanese art scene.

Hypnotic instrumental improvisation-based explorations by the trio from Cairo featuring Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect) and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B.) are propelled by North African percussion loops and shimmering keys, a West African tinged free jazz guitar and a driving Krautrock-style acoustic bass.

What architectural possibilities can emerge when we reimagine arid landscapes as spaces of abundance? (a collective book conceived as a travelogue that challenges preconceptions around aridity: the official publication of UAE's National Pavilion at Venise Biennale of Architecture).

A work engaging with the materiality of sound, the essence of cloth, and the symbiosis of the machine and handmade by transposing weaving draft notation into graphic scores and rhythmic sequencing.

A critical investigation into the material heritage and entangled histories of Western encyclopedic museums.

A symbolic and political science fiction short story written in four languages.

Marc Codsi’s new Arabic infused synth oriented album.

An overview of the Pakistani artist's practice over the past 15 years.

The first issue of the Dongola Architecture Series, dedicated to the most iconic contemporary architects of Arab culture, dives into the transdisciplinary perspective of Jordanian architect, artist and anthropologist Ammar Khammash.

Transformative solutions for food insecurity in the UAE over the past 50 years.

Recent video works by Turkish artist Ali Kazma.

Natascha Sadr Haghighian charts modes of strategic ignorance and recognition that operate in structural racism.

A project by architects Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Karimi questioning geopolitical strategies related to the development of Kuwait's global oil distribution.

Publication dedicated to Lebanese artist Nayla Romanos Iliya's "Small Characters" sculptures, inspired by and named after each of the 22 letters of the Phoenician Alphabet.

An exploration of the soundscape of coastal cities by the French-Lebanese artist.

The first comprehensive monograph of the art and life of Iranian American artist of Armenian descent Sonia Balassanian: in this deeply personal portrait, author Dr. Omar Kholeif weaves together poetry, memoir, and historical anecdote to trace the contours of Balassanian's world.

The sophomore album by the Istanbul born and raised, Berlin based electronic music composer and sound artist Hüma Utku: a series of sonic essays based around themes of psychological phenomena, which can be read as a musical enquiry into the human condition.

The sophomore album by the Istanbul born and raised, Berlin based electronic music composer and sound artist Hüma Utku: a series of sonic essays based around themes of psychological phenomena, which can be read as a musical enquiry into the human condition.

A multimedia meditation on time, memory and cultural identity.