Publications

Story of Water and Fire

Authored by poet, critic, translator, and author May Muzaffar, and translated by al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art (2023).

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Yasser Alwan: Egypt Every Day by Shamoon Zamir

Read Professor Shamoon Zamir's latest book, Yasser Alwan: Egypt Every Day published by Hatje Cantz (2022).

Past of a temporal universe - Revue Makan #2

Read the article by Ala Younis on narrative practices, and how interrogating narrativity can provoke fundamental questions about accepting societal or historical truths in today’s world.

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Mahmoud Hammad, Arabic Writing no. 11

Read the latest essay on Syrian artist Mahmoud Hammad by Anneka Lenssen, al Mawrid Investigator and Associate Professor of Global Modern Art, UC Berkeley.

Situatedness: Accidental Archaeology of When and What

Essay in Accinetal Archivism by Ala Younis on how to recognize accidental archaeological latencies in film work.

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Inji Efflatoun Oxford Bibliographies Entry by Salwa Mikdadi and Patrick Kane

Read Professor Salwa Mikdadi and Professor Patrick Kane's entry on Egyptian painter and activist, Inji Efflatoun recently published in the Oxford Bibliographies.

Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani's Visions of Ancient Iraq

A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Latif Al Ani’s photographs and contemporary Iraqi artists continue to challenge the colonial appropriation of Iraq’s ancient past, with contribution by Ala Younis.

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Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil: Histories and Ethnographies of Black Gold

Read al Mawrid Research Scholar Ala Younis contribution to this proposition of a new research agenda for the study of oil’s varied lives in the modern and contemporary Middle East.

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Egypt's Historical Image Re-exposed

Ibrahim Mohamed Ali's article, Egypt's Historical Image Re-exposed, published in the Minpaku Museum's monthly magazine.

Future Perfect - Catastrophe and Redemption in the Contemporary

Read al Mawrid Research Scholar Ala Younis reflections alongside a regional group of writers, thinkers, artists, and curators on different paradigms to consider how we conceptualize time or its passage, and our individual and collective roles in it.

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On the Book of Sceneries co-edited by Ala Younis and Tarek Abou El Fetouh

Read Ala Younis and Tarek Abou El Fetouh's co-edited publication, On the Book of Sceneries published for EXPO's 2020's Public Art Programme where artists explore themes of vision and cognition for the global expo.

Book Review of The Architecture of Ramses Wissa Wassef (AUC Press, 2021) by Dina Taha

Read Dina Taha's book review, published in the peer-reviewed journal, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR).

Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History

Read al Mawrid Research Scholar Ala Younis chapter in this book that establishes and maps the field of modern Russian-Arab history, including original archival and literary sources translated from six languages, many previously unpublished and all appearing in English for the first time.

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Publications

al Mawrid Publications

Story of Water and Fire

Yasser Alwan: Egypt Every Day by Shamoon Zamir

Recent Publications by al Mawrid's Team Members

Past of a temporal universe - Revue Makan #2

Mahmoud Hammad, Arabic Writing no. 11

Situatedness: Accidental Archaeology of When and What

Inji Efflatoun Oxford Bibliographies Entry by Salwa Mikdadi and Patrick Kane

Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani's Visions of Ancient Iraq

Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil: Histories and Ethnographies of Black Gold

Egypt's Historical Image Re-exposed

Future Perfect - Catastrophe and Redemption in the Contemporary

On the Book of Sceneries co-edited by Ala Younis and Tarek Abou El Fetouh

Book Review of The Architecture of Ramses Wissa Wassef (AUC Press, 2021) by Dina Taha

Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History