Middle-East

Catalogue of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art.

A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.

Echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this story introduces the legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this book traces the rise of Mohamed Salah, the Egyptian footballer who went from playing on dusty village fields to scoring for the world's biggest clubs.

In this moving story, published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, young readers follow Mahmoud Darwish, the celebrated Palestinian poet whose words became a voice for the displaced.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume explores the creative life of Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneering Lebanese artist who challenged norms through geometry, abstraction, and sculpture.

This volume traces the history and the political, cultural, and artistic legacy of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the great powers of the medieval world, known both for its formidable military force and its flourishing artistic production.

An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (1931-2019).

Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History revisits the founding principles of architectural and landscape discourse in the Arabian Peninsula. The publication explores instances of pre-oil planning, ranging from desert kites to fish traps and water channels, upending the toolset for thinking through architecture's relationship to its context.

This volume traces the history and the political, cultural, and artistic legacy of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the great powers of the medieval world, known both for its formidable military force and its flourishing artistic production.

An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (also available in English edition).

The edition offers a new approach to what Ines Weizman names "documentary architecture," meaning that to write about the history of a building is also to map the world in which it is located.

A collective artists' book based on a fictional character by Natascha Sadr Haghighian.

An exploration of artistic expression rooted in the diverse traditions of Islamic art and culture.

This publication is a dynamic archive, the legacy of The Land Remembers, the Lebanese National Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Harnessing local knowledge, it responds with urgency to the intentional destruction of nature and societies in Lebanon.

The screenplay for the Lebanese film written by Abboudy Mallah.

The third installment in the Dongola Architecture Series explores the provocative and often polarizing practice of Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury through an intimate lens rooted in Beirut.

The Um Slaim School forms part of a propositional pedagogy for contemporary urbanism in Riyadh, expanding on the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia at the Biennale Architettura 2025, and the work of Riyadh-based practice Syn Architects (Sara Alissa and Nojoud Alsudairi).

This enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrates a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art.

An in-depth look at nearly two decades of artistic output by the Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif.

A previously unheard recording of a concert by Pakistani vocalist Salamat Ali Khan.

This monograph presents Sheree Hovsepian's photographs, ink drawings, photograms, assemblages, and sculptures collected for the first time in a publication.

The photographic album of a trip to Yemen by one of the great architects and designers of the twentieth century.

An architectural cookbook featuring recipes that range from the technical to the fictional to the historic (official catalog of the National Pavilion of United Arab Emirates at La Biennale di Venezia).

A collection of reflections on various architectural practices from the Arab world and beyond, on the occasion of the first AlMusalla Prize (2025 edition), an international architectural competition awarded for the design of a musalla in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

An invitation to rediscover the diversity of 20th-century Arab modernism and to take a fresh look at the history of art scenes still little known in Europe, focusing on the relationship between Arab artists and Paris throughout the last century.

A selection of works by the Saudi artist that center on mud-brick houses, their central courtyards, and distinctive elements—drawing on a personal archive of memory and place—as well as scenes of traditional Bedouin life.

A selection of paintings, drawings, and preparatory works by the Saudi artist that invite into a dreamlike realm where reality and imagination blur.

A multilingual, feminist and original publication edited by Kulte Éditions in Morocco, TAMO, a journal where art, history and contemporary issues intertwine, unashamedly thinks, discusses, criticizes, promotes and denounces.

The catalogue of the Lebanese-American artist's first exhibition in Italy.

This inaugural retrospective volume unveils the œuvre of Lebanese artist Jamil Molaeb (b. 1948) and marks a seminal moment in the appreciation of his artistic legacy.

An investigation into how spontaneous play and public interaction in contemporary art can subvert societal norms, based on the work of Oslo-based Iranian artist Shahrzad Malekian.

Hans Ulrich Obrist leads readers into the world of path-breaking Syrian artist Simone Fattal in this intensely personal volume.

Over 700 drawings and full documentation of the major participatory Land art installation conceived by the Saudi artist for “Valley of the Arts”.

A compilation of recipes from the Arab world that were presented by artists for Mophradat's online cooking show Lentil Space.

Short Circuits features essays, interviews, and documentation that highlight Dubai based artist Vikram Divecha's interest in the often invisible structures of planning, construction, demolition and maintenance. It centres on his long-term collaborations with workers, contractors and decision-makers who shape the cities of the United Arab Emirates and beyond.

First monograph.

Retrospective monograph.

Catalog of an exhibition that presents the discourse and developments in the arts of Saudi Arabia that took place between 1959 and the 1980s, highlighting a group of Saudi artists who contributed to shaping the identity of the local art movement.

An overview of the pictorial work of a leading figure on the Saudi art scene.

An overview of the pictorial work of a leading figure on the Saudi art scene.

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

A catalogue that features a group of 20 artists from Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, the Maghreb and the international scene and explores the profound changes of a period marked by the presence of technology, the post internet era.

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

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

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.