Recorded Events
The Preservation of Our Photographic Heritage and Family Treasures | Dr. Debra Hess Norris
Dr. Debra Norris offers essential, practical guidance on preserving both historic and contemporary photographic prints.
Imagining Baghdad Through the Eyes of Jewad Selim | Dr. Nada Shabout
Dr. Nada Shabout delves into a selection of Selim’s 1950s work that has become iconic of the city and its people to this day.
The Generative Archive II | Panel 1: Archives and Public History
The first panel of al Mawrid's online symposium investigates how artists reinterpret archival materials and methodologies to present alternative historical narratives.
The Generative Archive II | Panel 2: Archives as Spatial Constructions
The second panel of al Mawrid's online symposium investigates how artists use archives' physical and conceptual dimensions to build new narratives and interpretations.
The Generative Archive II | Panel 3: Transforming Narratives
The third panel of al Mawrid's online symposium investigates how artists look at personal archives to challenge and deconstruct dominant historical narratives found within archives.
Cultural Talk: Half a Century of Art Criticism | Samir Gharib
Samir Gharib discusses art criticism and his writing on Egyptian modernism, particularly his approach to covering exhibitions in Egypt, focusing on two key exhibitions.
The Generative Archive | Panel 1: Approaches to Archival Architecture and Ownership
The first panel of the Generative Archive: Research, Methods, and Practices symposium.
The Generative Archive | Panel 2: Reviving the Past into an Imagined Future
The second panel of the Generative Archive: Research, Methods, and Practices symposium.
The Generative Archive | Panel 3: Closer Look, from the Point of View of Scholars and Teachers 1
The third panel of the Generative Archive: Research, Methods, and Practices symposium.
The Generative Archive | Panel 4: Institutional Archival Practices, Thinking about Use, Access, and Survival
The fourth panel of the Generative Archive: Research, Methods, and Practices symposium.
The Generative Archive | Keynote Address: On Archives and Style
Dr. Miguel de Baca's keynote address at the Generative Archive: Research, Methods, and Practices symposium.
The Generative Archive | Panel 5: Closer Look, from the Point of View of Scholars and Teachers 2
The fifth panel of the Generative Archive: Research, Methods, and Practices symposium.
Preserving a Legacy: Custodians of Arab Art | Hala Schoukair & Lubna Hammad
Hala Shoukair and Lubna Hammad present their experiences in establishing a foundation and an archive to sustain artists' legacies and to maintain a record of their parents' artistic practice.
On Rubbles and Ruin | Hanaa Malallah
Hanaa Malallah differentiates between ancient and modern ruins by distinguishing the regenerative energy of ruins produced by time from the lethal energy of rubble produced by war.
Sense and Intuition: A Conversation with Adonis
This conversation with Adonis, the greatest living poet of the Arab world, focuses on questions regarding the intersection of visual art and poetry in theory and practice.