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Contents
Preface - Andrée Sfeir-Semler
Tarek Abou El Fetouh and Lawrence Abu Hamdan in conversation
Echoes of Algiers: Art, Memory, and Belonging - Bilal Akkouche
Building on Shifting Sands - Zeina Arida
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi: Early Days - Richard Armstrong, Valerie Hillings
From OAS to OASIS - Kader Attia
Becoming an Artist in Saudi Arabia - Dana Awartani
BIDOUN - Negar Azimi
Transmodernism: A Renewed Outlook on Modernism in the Arab World - Sam Bardaouil
A Nomad's Map - Yto Barrada
Notes on Tunis - Myriam Ben Salah
An Assemblage of Artists and Events, 1985-2025 - Antonia Carver
Enfolded Worlds: Exhibiting Art from the Arab World 2000-2016 - Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Arab Art at Auctions - Mai Eldib
From Palestine to Abu Dhabi - Reem Fadda
The Art Dubai Story - Ben Floyd
The Phoenix / Beirut Forever - Massimiliano Gioni
Art in Morocco From 1950 Until Today: A Historical Reader - Abdellah Karroum
The Age of Mirror-Museums in the Persian Gulf - Alexandre Kazerouni
A Brief History of Canvas Magazine - Ali Y. Khadra
Paris-Riyadh - Mona Khazindar
On Representing Syrian Art: A Partial History of Exhibition and Imagination - Anneka Lenssen
2004-2024: From the Louvre to AlUla: Emerging Arab Contemporary Art - Sophie Makariou
On Pleasure: How to Be Non-Professional - Rabih Mroué
Creating and Exhibiting Modern Iraqi Art, in Baghdad or Elsewhere: Between Individual Initiatives and State Support - Silvia Naef
Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Andrée Sfeir-Semler
Beirut, Twenty Years - Jean-Marc Prévost
Sharjah Art Foundation and Sharjah Biennial - Hoor Al Qasimi
Beirut Art Biome 1990-2025 - Jim Quilty
Scratching on things I could disavow: A photograhic record _ Appendix I 2003 - present - Walid Raad
Riwaq Biennale: Art, Heritage, and Speculative Institutions in Palestine - Khalil Rabah
Riwaq Biennale: A Living Institution of Art, Heritage, and Resistance - Khalil Rabah
On Being Held: Artworks as a History of Institutions - Sarah A. Rifky
On the Cusp Looking Back: Beirut in the 1990s - Sarah Rogers
Syrian Art: Bearing Witness, Building Hope - Kareem Sakka
Patronage in the Arab World - Alia Al-Senussi
Sfeir-Semler Gallery: Beirut - Andrée Sfeir-Semler
The Uncertainty of Times: Reflecting on a Field in the Making - Nada Shabout
I've always known that I'm an artist - Wael Shawky
Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation: A Home for the Arts and Artists from the Arab World - Suha Shoman
The Sultan Gallery: A Brief Overview of the First Permanent Art Gallery in Kuwait - Farida Sultan and Abdullah Al-Mutairi
Three Accidental Encounters - Rayyane Tabet
Qatar's Commitment to Art and Culture - Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
I Will Always Like How it Began - Christine Tohmé
On the Legacy of Townhouse Gallery, Cairo - William Wells
The Arab Image Foundation: A Dialogue on the Possibilities and Limits of an Institution - Akram Zaatari interviewed by Chad Elias
A Chronology of Art Infrastructure in the Arab World
Arab Artists Index
Image Credits
Acknowledgments
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