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). Arabic edition published in 2021 by Arab Institute for Research and Publishing.
Publications
al Mawrid Publications
al Mawrid Upcoming Publications
Chronicles of the 1980s: Representational Pressures, Departures, and Beginnings
in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey.
Eds. Anneka Lenssen, Nada Shabout, and Sarah Rogers. Published by AUC Press.
Hiwar Al-Fann Al-Tashkeeli
Proceedings of artist-led meetings in Amman, Jordan.
Ed. Shaker Hassan Al-Said, translated by al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art. Published by Hatje-Cantz.
On Friendship
Compiled letters between writer Abdul Rahman Munif and artist Marwan Kassab-Bachi.
Translated by al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art. Published by Hatje-Cantz.
Publications by al Mawrid's Team Members
The Documentation of a 19th Century Albumen Print of Mount Arafat
Read the paper by Ibrahim Mohamed Ali, which presents the documentation of a 19th-century albumen print of Mount Arafat captured by Sadiq Bey.
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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 Accidental Archivism by Ala Younis on how to recognize accidental archaeological latencies in film work.
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 a 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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