Summer 2010
Ursula Biemann
By Ursula Biemann Summer 2010 | ArteZine In an observation about the city of London – as part of the ‘Urban Age’ initiative, the sociologist, writer and academic Richard Sennett noted that: We need to better understand how to legitimise certain forms of conflict. We can only assume that we have the ability to resolve conflict,…
Spring 2010
Ursula Biemann, Oroub El-Abed
By Oroub el Abed and Ursula Biemann Spring 2010 | ArteZine In 1997, the U.S. established several Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) in Jordan and Egypt, where labor-intensive production (such as textiles and garments), were manufactured for tax-free export to the U.S., under the condition that the financial operation involved an 8% Israeli input. This neo-liberal initiative, aimed at…
Ziad Turkey
By Ziad Turkey Spring 2010 | ArteZineSpring 2010 | ArteZine I probably made the right decision to rescue my family from the infernal sectarianism and hate that prevail in our society. I heard that the house where my family and I used to live was burned by the militias a few months after leaving the country….
Rana ElNemr
By Rana ElNemr Spring 2010 | ArteZine The “Olympic Garden” is a 7 minute long 3-channel loop of still photographs, text & sound. Script: Channel B Located behind ‘The Egyptian Olympic Centre’, on the amorphous line separating the upper middle class neighborhood of New Maadi and the Arab Al-Basateen informal area, ‘The Olympic Centre Garden’ has…
Francesca Recchia, Azad Shekhani, Anna Wachmeister
By Francesca Recchia, Azad Shekhani and Anna Wachmeister Spring 2010 | ArteZine Photography by Ehsan Maleki During the 1970s and the 1980s the Ba‘athist [alternative spelling is Ba‘thist] regime in Iraq displaced massively villagers in the northern region of Kurdistan from mountainous areas down to the valleys. The Iraqi government designed mujamma‘a or Collective Towns where these displaced populations were relocated. The planning…
By ArteEast Spring 2010 | ArteZine The taxi driver and myself were circling around the deserted international fairgrounds in Tripoli, lost, in spite of instructions from Ismael Sheikh Hassan, a volunteer coordinating various initiatives within the Nahr el-Bared Reconstruction Commission for Civil Action and Studies (or the NBRC). The NBRC was housed in the UNRWA’s offices,…
Marwan Ghandour, Mona Fawaz
By Marwan Ghandour and Mona Fawaz Spring 2010 | ArteZine Often associated with processes of healing, postwar re-construction projects may be less related to the pre-destruction phase than to the actual act of destruction. This, at least, is what the Lebanese case suggests. In this essay, we argue that the spatial erasure initiated by war destruction is consolidated during…
Beshara Doumani, Ursula Biemann
By Beshara Doumani and Ursula Biemann Spring 2010 | ArteZine Ursula Biemann: We have had an ongoing discussion about the possibility of designing and experiencing post-territorial forms of a Palestinian cultural and political life. Half of the Palestinian population, about five million people, live outside of their home territory as refugees, mostly in adjacent states, but also scattered across…
Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman
By Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman Spring 2010 | ArteZine In May 2006, the Israeli army evacuated a military fortress strategically located on one the highest hill at the southern edge to the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour in the Bethlehem region. The fortress, located on the line-of-water-divide that separates the arable lands of Bethlehem from the…
Summer 2009
Iftikhar Dadi, Reem Fadda, Leeza Ahmady
By Leeza Ahmady, Iftikhar Dadi and Reem Fadda, ArteEast Guest Curator Summer 2009 | Gallery Featured in this edition of the Virtual Gallery, ArteEast’s major visual arts exhibition – Tarjama/Translation – maps an influential subset of recent work from the Middle East and Central Asia and its diasporas as a complex and dynamic translational undertaking. Rather than highlighting the region as…
