Volume IV
 
 
The Abraaj Capital Art Prize (ACAP) 2008
full essay
Reem Fekri
 
KUTLUG ATAMAN
Interview with one of the winners of the
Abraaj Capital Prize, 2008
full essay
Reem Fekri
 
NAZGOL ANSARINIA
Interview with one of the winners of the
Abraaj Capital Prize, 2008
full essay

Reem Fekri
 
ZOULIKHA BOUABDELLAH
Interview with one of the winners of the
Abraaj Capital Prize, 2008
full essay

Reem Fekri
 
BREAKING NEWS
full essay
Lina Attalah
 
Under Construction: Dubai City of Culture
Review of Dubai Next: Face of Twenty-first Century Culture
full essay
Elisabeth Stoney
 
Cairo Escap
Exhibition in Berlin Challenges Assumptions About the Middle East – Overcoming East meets West clichés to hit on underlying truths.
full essay
Rita Selvaggio
 

PhotoCairo 4: The Long Shortcut
December 17, 2008–January 14, 2009 Curated by Aleya Hamza and Edit Molnar, Contemporary Image Collective And various venues in Cairo, Egypt
full essay


Nikki Columbus
 
Infrastructure and Ideas: Contemporary Art in the Middle East
A two-day Symposium at the Tate Modern and Tate Britain
full essay
Gemma Tully
 
The Iraq’s Past Speaks to the Present:
Contemporary Art from Iraq and Syria at the British Museum
full essay
Gemma Tully
 
Images Towering Hope: Conceptions of Home and Time
in Lara Baladi’s Borg El Amal

full essay
Nat Muller
 
MEETING POINTS 5: DAMAS, UN POINT DE RENCONTRE AVEC LE PUBLIC ?
full essay
Victoria Ambrosini Chenivesse
 
Art contemporain au Maroc et le Maroc de l’art contemporain
full essay
Mohamed Rachdi
 
Gazbia Sirry
full essay
Mariam Hamdy
 
Creating the Dream Space
full essay
Aida Eltorie
 
An interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist
full essay
 
 
Depoliticizing Arab Art: Christie’s and the Rush to “Discover” the Arab World
full essay
Maymanah Farhat
 
Is The United Arab Emirates Constructing its Art History?
The Mechanisms that Confer Value to Art

full essay
Steve Sabella
 
Architectures of Spectacle Facets of the exhibition boom in South Korea and China in the context of the strategy of globalism
full essay
Anna Schneider
 
Designers and the Advertising World
full essay
Mariam Hamdy
 
WHAT DO ARTISTS NEED?
Reflections on The First Örebro International Videoart Festival

full essay
Madeline Djerejian
 
Contemporary Audiovisual Tendencies in the Middle East and North Africa
Reflection on the Middle East Video Channel, at ‘Farewell to Post-Colonialism’,
Third Guangzhou Triennial, China
full essay
 
 
CIRCUIT BREAKING
New Approaches to Art in the Arab World
full essay
Maymanah Farhat
 
Reforming Public Cultural Institutions in Egypt:
Egyptian Fine Arts Sector, Public Spaces and the Cairo Biennial;
Interviews With Four Young Egyptian Public Spaces Managers
full essay
Collaborative Authorship*
 
Beirut Art Center
full essay
Kristine Genevive Khouri
 
Interview with Nja Mahdaoui
full essay
Martina Corgnati
 
Being in Neighbourhood
full essay
Yahya M. Madra
 
Book Review : Nada Shabout’s Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics
full essay
Maymanah Farhat
 
Book Review : Malu Halasa and Maziar Bahari’s Transit Tehran on contemporary photographs of Iran
full essay
Janet Rady