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Omar Kholeif - World Child
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
forthcoming
An exploration into the wild and wonderful world of Luísa Correia Pereira (1945–2009), an obscure jewel of late modernism and "enfant terrible" of the Portuguese art scene.
Rawi Hage - The Call
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.
And All That Is In Between - Islamic Arts Biennale 2025
2026
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Catalogue of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art.
Saudi Art - Reflections on Mediums of Modernity and Contemporality
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
forthcoming
A broad overview of the evolution of the Saudi art scene from the 1950s to the present day.
Maghras - A Farm for Experimentation
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Centered on the Al Ahsa region, one of the world's oldest and largest oases, Maghras: A Farm for Experimentation (accompanying the inaugural Saudi Pavilion at the 24th Triennale di Milano, marking Saudi Arabia's first participation in this global architecture and design platform) reimagines the farm as a site of collective inquiry, where environmental change, cultural memory, and community practices converge.
Daftar - Beginnings
2026
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
The first print edition of Daftar, the online media edited by Afikra, a platform focused on the history, debates, and cultures of the Arab world.
 Civil Architecture - Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
forthcoming
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.
Rania Matar - Where Do I Go?  - 50 Years Later
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
forthcoming
A wide-ranging series of portraits of women from Lebanon, visually telling their story and their relationship with the country, 50 years after the beginning of the civil war.
Ines Weizman - The Architectural Casino - Conversations about Modernism in Haifa
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
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.
Connections as Method - Relational Pedagogies and Participatory Spatial Practice
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
The prospects opened up for architectural education by the pioneering initiative of the Um Slaim school in Riyadh.
Hoda Kashiha - Slipping on Fragmented Shapes
2026
trilingual edition (English / Persian / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
First monograph devoted to the explosive and colorful abstract paintings of the Iranian artist.
 Moni -
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
forthcoming
First comprehensive publication devoted to Turkish performance artist Moni (Salim Özgilik).
Saud\'s Adventure in the Art World
2026
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Launching a series of children's books published by Kaph in Beirut, Saud's Adventure in the Art World recounts the initiatory wanderings of a child lost in a museum.
Walid Sadek - How to speak dead
2026
English edition
Kayfa ta
forthcoming
Zeynep Toraman - Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon - For instrumental ensemble, electronics and film (vinyl LP)
2026
Speckled Toshe
forthcoming
Created for instrumental ensemble, electronics and film, Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon is a spacious and quietly enigmatic work by composer and writer Zeynep Toraman, bringing together clarinet, cello, violin, electric guitar and electronic textures with a subtly unfolding visual layer.
Sophie Ristelhueber - The War within
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.
Noor\'s Heroes - Umm Kulthum
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
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.
Noor\'s Heroes - Mohamed Salah
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
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.
Noor\'s Heroes - Mahmoud Darwish
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
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.
Noor\'s Heroes - Saloua Raouda Choucair
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
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.
Mamluks - Legacy of an Empire
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
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.
Mamlouks - L\'héritage d\'un empire
2025
French edition
Kaph Books
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.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay - Fils d\'or
2025
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
A story by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay about traditional crafts and the power of community, in an illustrated children's book in two complementary parts, French and Arabic.
Ahmet Doğu İpek - Sound of the Ground - Face of the Stone
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A comprehensive survey of Ahmet Doğu İpek's artistic journey over a decade.
Valentin Noujaïm - Interzone
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An artist book providing an immersive entry point into Valentin Noujaïm's cinematic world.
Myrna Ayad - Alcove - Intimate Essays on Arab Modernist Artists Vol. II
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
This second edition of Alcove deepens the archive of Modern Arab art through 30 new personal essays.
Shirana Shahbazi - Tehran North
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book.
Resonant - Bodies, Songs, and Strings
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices.
Art Across the Arabian Gulf
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Art Across the Arabian Gulf brings together 78 pioneering artists from across the Gulf to trace the region's artistic evolution from the mid-twentieth century through the 1990s.
Huguette Caland - Writing in the work of Huguette Caland
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (1931-2019).
Huguette Caland - L\'écriture dans l\'œuvre d\'Huguette Caland
2025
French edition
Kaph Books
An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (also available in English edition).
Natascha Sadr Haghighian - Robbie Williams
2025
English edition
Reliable Copy
A collective artists' book based on a fictional character by Natascha Sadr Haghighian.
As the Sun Appears from Beyond - Twenty Years of the Al Burda Award
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
An exploration of artistic expression rooted in the diverse traditions of Islamic art and culture.
The Land Remembers (box set)
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
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.
Abboudy Mallah - The Puppeteer - A Screenplay by Abboudy Mallah
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
The screenplay for the Lebanese film written by Abboudy Mallah.
Bernard Khoury - Provoking the Territory
2025
English edition
Dongola
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 – An Architecture of Connection - 19th International Architecture Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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).
Omar Kholeif -
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
This enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrates a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art.
Basma al-Sharif - Semi-Nomadic Debt-Ridden Bedouins
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenz Press
An in-depth look at nearly two decades of artistic output by the Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif.
Salamat Ali Khan - Metamusik Festival Berlin \'74 (vinyl LP)
2025
Black Truffle
A previously unheard recording of a concert by Pakistani vocalist Salamat Ali Khan.
Sheree Hovsepian -
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This monograph presents Sheree Hovsepian's photographs, ink drawings, photograms, assemblages, and sculptures collected for the first time in a publication.
Marco Zanuso - Yemen 1979
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The photographic album of a trip to Yemen by one of the great architects and designers of the twentieth century.
Pressure Cooker recipes - An architectural cookbook
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
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).
Rooted Transience - Affiliated Event – AlMussala Prize
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
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.
Arab Presences - Modern Art and Decolonisation – Paris 1908-1988
2025
English edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
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.
Mohammed Alresayes - Between Forms
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
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.
Khaleel Hassan Khaleel - The Whisper of Dreams
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A selection of paintings, drawings, and preparatory works by the Saudi artist that invite into a dreamlike realm where reality and imagination blur.
TAMO
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / French / Arabic / Amazigh)
miscellaneous
Kulte Editions
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.
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