Middle-East

Catalogue: a selection of recent and older works by Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji.

Following the lead of American objectivist poetry, Gaza, d'ici-là is a poetry-testimony based on an official document published by the UN on one of the military operations carried out in Gaza by the Israeli government.

An overview of French revolutionary armed groups from 1968 to 2000.

A mapping of the young Lebanese art scene.

A mapping of the young Lebanese art scene (DVD included).

Publication documenting the case of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah—founder of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, imprisoned in France for forty years.

Waterkil is a singular sound creation starring Axel Dörner on trumpet & Jassem Hindi on electronics. The recordings for this album were made during a three week residency at EMS in Stockholm and during a live show at Able gallery in Berlin.

This publication proposes a set of aural exercises that show readers how to disappear, reappear, join a group, or leave a group. Its annex is a lexicon of some of the sounds that dwell in or are banished from the middle-class household.

Keren Cytter's choreographic performance.

By documenting football as it is played in Palestine, the photographer Amélie Debray offers a fresh perspective on Palestinian youth.

Artist' book published and edited by artist Shirana Shahbazi (1974, Tehran), writer Tirdad Zolghadr (1972, San Francisco) and designer Manuel Krebs (1970, Karachi).

Through stamps and photographs, the Austrian artist tells the story of her mystical and artistic experience in the Sinai desert (the dust jacket is hand-painted by the artist).

Through stamps and photographs, the Austrian artist tells the story of her mystical and artistic experience in the Sinai desert (the dust jacket is hand-painted by the artist). The limited edition features an original artwork (signed), survival blanket, photography and pill.

An imaginary conversation between two filmmakers that evokes memories from the conflicts between Israel and Lebanon, and the way the memory and the testimony inevitably mix fiction and documentary (available in English edition).

Suspended spaces #2 is a trip in the libanese territories. It develops artistical proposals and philosophical approaches of modernism in a middle eastern country.

Collection of poetry written in jail by award-winning poet and opponent to the Syrian regime Faraj Bayrakdar. With a foreword by French poet Michel Deguy.

A series of narrative portraits and accompanying images of his recent sculptures by Egyptian artist, musician and writer.

A set of contributions (archive texts, essays, literary texts, iconographic analysis, art works, interviews ...) by over thirty authors, scholars, writers, journalists, artists, Westerners, Middle Easterners, Jews, Muslims, Christians, atheists, to explore the complexities of contemporary Middle Eastern reality.

Two both aesthetic and political engaged considerations on the relationship between the West and the Middle East (or more generally between the West and its others), from the figures of exile and the two cultures: three unpublished interviews of Edward W. Said / a deconstruction of a common European view on the Arab world by Seloua Luste Boulbina.

A trip accross the Mediterranean Sea to Irak, in 96 drawings.

Monograph based on two films by Keren Cytter.

An anthology of texts proposing a doable solution for the region.

Artist's book.

Artist's book (limited edition of 350 hand numbered and signed copies).

Six Keren Cytter's scripts for films.

Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, Ingo Niermann confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with analytical elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable.

A collection of texts with a feminist approach, in which Joumana Haddad tells about the life of female poets who committed suicide.

A compilation of highly entertaining “solutions,” where the objective is not the education of America so much as the pleasure of a text that purports to be just that.

A conference on the invention of perspective, Arab science and the art of the Renaissance.

Signed and numbered print (1-25) from the "Beyrouth, photographs" series (1984).

Architectual development in desert landscapes.

An adventure novel by Keren Cytter, based on a true story told in a televised interview by the Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier

Art and globalization.

Work by artists emerging from Beirut today.

First monograph.

First monograph, including paintings, many detail views of the paintings, drawings and filmstills (also available in English / German edition).

A small book of b/w photographies and texts.

A multilingual project between art and history, the reproduction of the artist's drawings and texts, some exhibition views, an interview and two essays.

With Shahrzads newest publication, the focus is on the mise-en-scene of contemporary historiography in today's Euroamerica.

Turkish: A Dictionary of Delights is a sui generis work and lexical tour de force which uses the dictionary genre to inject polemic into certain forbidden discourses that are currently suppressed both within and around the subjects of Turkish language, politics, sexuality and history, making the book extremely timely in light of contemporary debates around the question of Turkey's entry into the EU. It also introduces the Turkish universe in all its intimacy from the perspective of a personal "Wirkungsgeschichte". The “definitions” are presented with a sense of wit and political incorrectness that one doesn't usually associate with sacred Ottoman subjects such as the hamman and revered political icons such as Ataturk. This explains why initial shipments of the book sent to Istanbul were refused by postal authorities, ironically contributing to the cult status the book quickly acquired in artistic circles of Istanbul, where the book can only be purchased “under the counter” at certain galleries. The authorship and origin of "Turkish: A Dictionary of Delights" are a subject of considerable speculation. There is some question as to whether the dictionary's putative author, Adnan Onart, even exists. The editor is Roger Conover, the well-known art publisher and secret author of a number of books which have been appearing over the years in such hidden contexts and limited print runs that they exist almost more as rumours than publications.

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

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

An overview of photo and video works by Farah Al Qasimi between 2017 and 2021, with which the artist investigates how spaces and subjectivities inflect and influence each other.

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.

Architecture of the Territory examines the role that national narratives have in defining the Arab world through the use of architecture and urban planning, through 30 essays, by contributors of each region.

The first retrospective on design in Lebanon, from the 1920s until today, includes works by over 50 designers, uncovering this major design scene in the Middle-East.

A long form composition of six movements from Maurice Louca, with the Lebanese improvisational group A Trio, featuring Anthea Caddy, Khaled Yassine, and Christina Kazaryan, between Arabic music and psychedelic folk.

A history of southern surrealism, between Monaco and Alexandria: a journey that defies established cartographies, far from the nationalistic landmarks of a European-centric history of modernity.

Four essays and one conversation with contemporary artists and curators from different backgrounds and origins (Jerusalem, Lebanon, Kuwait, USA, Egypt) discussing their experience of becoming mothers as professionals in the arts, its reality and effects.