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The Object of Absence

Landscapes in the Arab World: Reclaiming Places and Identity

Mapping Memory: How Almaha Jaralla Documents the Shifting Histories of a Region in Flux

Color Theory: On Farah Al Qasimi

In Attunement

Seeking Home

Architecture, Place, and Memory in the Work of Asma Belhamar

Mother and Child

The Idea of Landscape

What Ruin Can Mean

Feminist Materialities in the Work of Three MENA Artists

From Sustenance to Signifier: Food in Contemporary MENA Art

Techniques of the Body

The Museum as Method

Across Four Cities: Rethinking Modernist Art in the SWANA Region

Objects, Domestic and Everyday

Institutions without Curators: Finding New Perspectives

Modularity and Modulation: On the Subtle Art of Sarah Almehairi

Truth In Memory: A Critical Commentary on the Juxtaposition of Memory and Truth

Untold Stories: Exploring the Use of Narrative in the Work of Aya Haidar

Seeing Otherwise, The Eye as an Icon in the Art of Baya Mahieddine and Alymamah Rashed

Art Spaces not IRL: The Rise of Digital Museums

Art Spaces without Storage: The Contemporary Burden of “Stuff”

New Ways of Artmaking: Contemporary Art after the 1979 Iranian Revolution

A Vibrant Pre-1979 Art Scene in Iran

Mystical African Abstractions: The Pioneers of Sudanese Modern Art

The avant-garde works of Sudanese artists, such as Ibrahim El-Sahali and Kamala Ibrahim, reveal gems of abstract art hailing from East Africa

Collections without Buildings: Spreading the Art

Museums without Art: The Kunsthalle Model

Laying the Groundwork: The Early Pioneers of Saudi Arabia’s Contemporary Art Scene

Uncovering the Rise of the West African Contemporary Art Scene

Mohammed Kazem and Conceptual Art in the UAE. Conversations from June 2024

Baya As I Knew Her

Fateh Moudarres in The Khair Art Collection

Willy Aractingi in The Mokbel Art Collection

Unmasking Sabhan Adam’s Creatures of Solitude

Dia Azzawi: An Evolution of Style

When Images Speak, What do they Say?

The Depth of the Surface: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World

‘Any Collection Is a Story’: How Two Syrian Women Are Sharing Their Country’s Artistic Heritage with the World

"A piece of art is dead if it's not being seen": Khaled Ead Samawi and His Daughter Maya on the History and Future of the Samawi Collection