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An exploration into the wild and wonderful world of Luísa Correia Pereira (1945–2009), an obscure jewel of late modernism and "enfant terrible" of the Portuguese art scene.

A broad overview of the evolution of the Saudi art scene from the 1950s to the present day.

A survey of contemporary design from the Arab World.

The second volume of Al Journal by Liwan Design Studios and Labs, a collection of essays, articles, reviews, and visuals exploring contemporary design themes across the Southwest Asian and North African regions and beyond, focusing on the theme "Design and Resilience."

Launching a series of children's books published by Kaph in Beirut, Saud's Adventure in the Art World recounts the initiatory wanderings of a child lost in a museum.

Spices and Wonders: Sailing the Indian Ocean follows 1,000 years of maritime history and culture, charting the routes that connected the civilisations of Africa, Asia, and beyond.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume traces the life and career of the Lebanese composer, musician, director, and actor Ziad Rahbani (1956–2025).

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume traces the life and career of Palestinian artist, activist, and scholar Samia Halaby.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume traces the life and career of the Lebanese scientist and inventor Hassan Kamel Al Sabbah (1895–1935).

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume traces the life and career of makeup artist and blogger Huda Kattan.

Spices and Wonders: Sailing the Indian Ocean follows 1,000 years of maritime history and culture, charting the routes that connected the civilisations of Africa, Asia, and beyond.

A look back at the career and work of Vasıf Kortun, an exhibition curator, author, and educator.

The first in-depth examination of the life and work of the Pakistani feminist artist, activist and pedagogue Lala Rukh (1948-2017).

Stone Assemblies takes Jumana Manna's major public artwork for Oslo's Government Quarter as its starting point, opening up a collective reflection on the politics of stone, ruination, and dissent.

A special edition bringing together three issues of the journal of architecture criticism under a single title: "Dixit: Switzerland!". Six prominent figures with links to Switzerland (Hélène Binet + Elli Mosayebi; Tiphaine Abenia + Alia Bengana; Carlotta Darò + Raphaël Kadid) are invited to discuss common and topical issues.

This publication is one of the catalogues accompanying Sharjah Biennial 16, each dedicated to the Biennial's curatorial propositions. Edited by Zeynep Öz, this volume explores the relationship between publication and exhibition-making.

This publication is one of the catalogues accompanying Sharjah Biennial 16, each dedicated to the Biennial's curatorial propositions. Edited by Megan Tamati-Quennell, Ihi expands on her curatorial framework, exploring Indigenous knowledge systems, ancestral relationships, and the ways in which contemporary artistic practices carry memory, identity and cultural continuity across time and place.

This publication is one of the catalogues accompanying Sharjah Biennial 16, each dedicated to the Biennial's curatorial propositions. Edited by Alia Swastika, this volume expands on Rossestrata, a curatorial framework named after the Rosetta Stone that explores how feminist perspectives and nonlinear readings of bodies and texts can reshape curatorial and educational practices.

The second volume of the journal investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education, edited by the international sound art and popular education collective Ultra-red, is dedicated to the "Learning Circles for Palestine."

The dangerous liaisons between art and oil: the question of artworks and the postcolonial power dynamics shaped by the oil industry, in the era of global warming and of our civilization burning.

Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the 20th century which responds more than ever, thirty years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge.

Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the 20th century which responds more than ever, thirty years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge.

A photographic and conversational study of public sculptures embedded within Jeddah's urban circulation.

This posthumous work is the first monograph devoted to the Franco-Palestinian artist and activist Amal Abdenour (1931–2020).

The debut-novel of the Lebanese-born and Berlin-based writer Edwin Nasr—a "work of hysterical fiction."

The first French translation of one of the seminal texts on the decolonization of art.

Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History revisits the founding principles of architectural and landscape discourse in the Arabian Peninsula. The publication explores instances of pre-oil planning, ranging from desert kites to fish traps and water channels, upending the toolset for thinking through architecture's relationship to its context.

The edition offers a new approach to what Ines Weizman names "documentary architecture," meaning that to write about the history of a building is also to map the world in which it is located.

The Camargo Foundation hosted artist Lara Tabet in Cassis for a residency in 2024-2025. Her project Enter Corridors explores the complexity of the port and coastal environments of La Ciotat, as well as that of the Calanques National Park.

A diverse compendium of writing and visual art that addresses pertinent issues found in the work of artist Hiwa K.

Published on the occasion of Nilbar Güreş's exhibition presented at the Türkiye Pavilion during the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, this volume explores themes of the body, space, belonging, migration, and subtle transformation.

A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.

An immersive photographic journey into the heart of the Al Dhafra Festival in the Abu Dhabi region, a vast desert gathering renowned for its camel beauty contest.

Zenit brings together photographs, films, and light-responsive installations by Berlin-based artist Shirin Sabahi. Shown in non-chronological order, and some for the first time, the photographs ground her artistic roots in photography—at times as a study, and at others as the work itself.

A first-of-its-kind documentation of collective cinematic journeys from the MENA region and beyond.

A comprehensive guide to the monumental, immersive installation created by Nabil Nahas for the Lebanese Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.

This revised edition of Louise Colet’s Voyage en Orient (1873)—a vivid account of the poet, novelist, and committed feminist journalist’s enchanted discovery of nineteenth-century Egypt—brings to light a passionate literary work that has long remained overshadowed by her famous, tumultuous romantic affair with Gustave Flaubert.

First monograph of pioneering Saudi artist Saad Almasari, tracing a practice shaped by place, memory, and the enduring logic of geometry.

First monograph of Saudi artist Fouad Mogharbel.

A retrospective of a deeply prolific and fruitful period in Huguette Caland's career, spent in Paris between 1970 and 1987, during which the Lebanese artist, giving birth to her joyful eroticism and freeing herself from all conventions, reinvented herself and produced some of her greatest masterpieces.

The monumental catalogue (some 1200 pages in four volumes, housed in an 8kg box set) of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art, featuring over 500 historical objects and 29 contemporary art commissions.

A meditative reflection by the Lebanese artist and writer on language and its loss.

A meditative reflection by the Lebanese artist and writer on language and its loss.

The guide and extension of the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2026), featuring 67 international artists.

The first print edition of Daftar, the online media edited by Afikra, a platform focused on the history, debates, and cultures of the Arab world.

First comprehensive publication devoted to Turkish performance artist Moni (Salim Özgilik).

The prospects opened up for architectural education by the pioneering initiative of the Um Slaim school in Riyadh.

First monograph devoted to the explosive and colorful abstract paintings of the Iranian artist.

A spectacular journey through 80 major works of modern and contemporary art (by Picasso, Kandinsky, Joan Mitchell, and Hockney to Manal AlDowayan, Etel Adnan, and Imran Qureshi) in AlUla, an oasis located on the ancient incense route, taking the image of the "garden in the desert" as a starting point for artistic reflection on the evolving relationship between humans and nature.

A wide-ranging series of portraits of women from Lebanon, visually telling their story and their relationship with the country, 50 years after the beginning of the civil war.