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Archaic - The Pavilion of Iraq
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the Pavilion of Iraq at the 57th Venice Biennale, this book presents eight Iraqi artists of different generations, together with work made by Francis Alÿs when he was embedded with a battalion of Peshmerga near Mosul, and a stunning collection of artefacts from the Iraq Museum of Baghdad.
Marwan Rechmaoui - Metropolis
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Inspired by Beirut's urbanism and cultural history, Rechmaoui's sculptures and installations reflect themes of urbanization and contemporary social and behavioral demographics. Including documentation, essays, and interviews, this illustrated monograph takes a look back at twenty years of work by one of the most important post­war contemporary artists from Lebanon and the region.
Seepage/ritual - The 2017 Abraaj Group Art Prize
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Providing an important platform for new and ambitious work from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the ninth installment of the Abraaj Group Art Prize features "seepage/ritual," an exhibition with the work of winner Rana Begum and the three short-listed artists: Sarah Abu Abdallah, Doa Aly, and Raha Raissnia.
Zamân
2017
French edition
Zamân
Zamân - Zamân journal
The Seventh Issue of Zamâm magazine gathers innovative artists, curators, and art historians to investigate the relationships between the Pacific Region and the Mediterranean Basin, from Morocco to India (with Toni Maraini, Eric Baudelaire, Geeta Kapur, Touda Bouanani, Faouzi Laatiris…).
Gebran Tarazi - Twelve Seasons
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zamân - Zamân Books
This monograph offers a sweeping vision of the work of Lebanese artist Gebran Tarazi, whose paintings combine geometrical abstraction with oriental identity. The publication gathers reproductions of paintings, multidisciplinary projects, a selection of writings by the artist—log books, novel excerpts, correspondences—interviews, and critical texts.
Rabih Mroué - Diary of a Leap Year
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
In Diary of a Leap Year, Lebanese artist produces 366 daily collages from political newspapers in Lebanon and the Arab World, as a protest to the violence taking place in this region.
Ali Cherri - Somniculus
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Filmed inside a series of empty museum galleries across Paris, Ali Cherri's Somniculus articulates the tension between the lives of dead objects and the living world that surrounds them—thus highlighting their ideological value. This publication accompanies and complete the Lebanese artist's video project.
Future Imperfect - Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Future Imperfect critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present-day and future contexts for the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa.
Tirdad Zolghadr - Traction
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A polemical essay targeting the moral economy of indeterminacy in contemporary art.
Hassan Khan - Twelve Clues
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A mystery tale illustrated with artworks by twelve contemporary artists.
Basim Magdy - Il n\'y aura pas d\'étoiles filantes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Companion book to Basim Madgy's eponymous video: a dreamlike tale about the ocean and its secrets.
Basile Mookherjee - Fully Fueled
2016
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Fully Fueled brings together pictures taken from 2012 to 2014 documenting the life of Emiratis through the lense of cars.
Guillaume de Sardes - Beirut Round Trips
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.
Guillaume de Sardes - Retours à Beyrouth - Journal photographique
2016
French edition
Kaph Books
De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.
Emily Jacir - Translatio
2016
English edition
Nero
Uniting the artist with two scholars of the Medieval Mediterranean, John Lansdowne and Christopher MacEvitt, this volume illustrates the movement of objects, images, people and places between Palestine and Italy.
Syntax and Society - The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2016 / Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme (2 books)
2016
English edition (texts in English and Arabic)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This double publication offers further investigation into the work of the recipients and shortlisted artists of ninth installment of The Abraaj Group Art Prize (Dina Danish, Mahmoud Khaled, Basir Mahmood, and award-winning artists duo Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme).
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Music - 1961-2014 (2 CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
An overview of experimental and electronic music in Turkey featuring 29 Turkish artists—from the electronic music of the 1960s to all forms of experimental music of the 2010s.
An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Music - 1961-2014 (2 vinyl LP)
2016
Sub Rosa
An overview of experimental and electronic music in Turkey featuring 29 Turkish artists—from the electronic music of the 1960s to all forms of experimental music of the 2010s.
Shirana Shahbazi - Tehran North
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Shirana Shahbazi's photo-project Tehran North is a subjective road movie captured from a car driving through the Iranian capital at night, offering a black and white kaleidoscopic vision of Tehran's urban landscape (artist's book).
Mathilde Rouxel - Jocelyne Saab - La mémoire indomptée
2016
French edition
various
(last copies available!)
The first monogaphic study dedicated to French-Lebanese filmmaker and photograph Jocelyne Saab and her works from 1970 to 2015.
 Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian - Her Majesty?
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The colorful and impertinent hijacking of a luxurious big size Taschen book celebrating Queen Elizabeth's jubilee.
Shahryar Nashat - Obituary
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
With this volume, Shahryar Nashat recalls the life and death of an iconic art object—a green dodecahedron called La Shape—operating in many of the artist's works since 2011.
Ziad Antar - After Images
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
Ziad Antar experiments forms, colors and light with his lensless camera, during a long journey searching for the cities where mythology was born. At the core of his work is the questioning of the foundations of photography, through the destructuration of this art (monograph edited in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist).
Keren Cytter - Terminal
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Nora Schultz gathered digital associations made with Google's image search engine, and then asked nine other artists to build a series of textual and visual narratives around her results (an artists' book designed by Keren Cytter).
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - The Rumors of  the World - Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - Les rumeurs du monde - Repenser la confiance à l\'âge de l\'Internet
2015
French edition
Villa Arson
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
Sur
2015
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Sur vol. II invites a series of encounters between artists, writers, and curators working in the Middle East and in Mexico to explore the rich, relatively uncharted history linking both places, especially around the notions of utopia and exile.
Kour Pour -
2015
English edition
Nero
35.00 20.00 €
Inspired by Persian tapestry, Kour Pour's paintings are highlighting the artist's interest in the cyclic life of images, shifted back-and-forth between the online realm and the material world. This first monograph includes images of all the paintings on display, some installation views and a photographic documentation of the art work's making process, along with an essay by the curator Nicola Ricciardi.
Keren Cytter - Peep-Hole Sheet - A Drivel
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A drivel is a short story wrote by Keren Cytter in a style reminiscent of Witold Gombrowicz, though its meaning gets lost in the continuous intertwining of characters, their stories and their memories.
Invisible Beauty
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the Iraqi Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Gabriele Basilico - Iran 1970
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
A photographic journey from Yugoslavia to Iran during the 1970's.
Edward W. Saïd - Le Classisme : une introduction [extrait]
2015
French edition
<o> future <o>
A re-appropriation of Edward Said's Orientalism by Joe Scanlan.
Jalal Toufic - E-flux journal - Forthcoming – Second edition
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
Second edition of Jalal Toufic's collection essays.
Uriel Orlow - Unmade Film
2014
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
An audio-visual project about the impossibility of a film on the Deir Yassin massacre, exploring the complex ramifications of the place (2 volumes artist's book).
Behdjat Sadr - Traces
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zamân - Zamân Books
currently out of stock
Monograph exploring the artistic and intellectual heritage of abstract painter and pioneer of the visual arts in Iran Behdjat Sadr. This richly illustrated publication offers a singular testimony, combining personal writings and press cuttings, critical texts and poetic correspondence.
New Africa
2014
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
(last copies available!)
New Africa gives a photographic redefinition of the African territory, influences and cultures. Beyond Afro-pessimism and outdated folklore figures, this publication reveals the multiple identities of the Arab-African human being.
Eyal Weizman - Architecture after Revolution
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A series of provocative projects by the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) that try to imagine “the morning after revolution.”
Akram Zaatari - Time Capsule, Kassel
2014
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A statement about speculation, photography, time and withdrawal.
Giovanna Silva - Libya - Inch by Inch, House by House, Alley by Alley
2014
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
A double portrait of Libya.
Etel Adnan - Nous verrons bien
2013
French edition
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
(last copies available!)
First edition of Eugénie Paultre's Nous Verrons Bien. Etel Adnan has created the six drawings for this book.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige -
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige -
2013
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
Taysir Batniji - Man does not live on bread alone
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - Wide Open
Catalogue: a selection of recent and older works by Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji.
Frank Smith - Gaza, d\'ici-là
2013
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
(last copies available!)
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.
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah - Collectif international pour la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
2013
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
Publication documenting the case of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah—founder of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, imprisoned in France since 1984.
Hazem El Moukaddem - Panorama des groupes révolutionnaires armés français de 1968 à 2000
2013
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
(last copies available!)
An overview of French revolutionary armed groups from 1968 to 2000.
Peeping Tom\'s Digest - Beirut
2013
English edition
Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom's Digest
A mapping of the young Lebanese art scene.
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