Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili tackles issues of migration, language, and conflict in her ongoing untitled solo exhibition at London’s Lisson Gallery
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Iranian Voices
Lizzy Vartanian Collier visits the British Museum to explore a small, yet telling exhibition of works on paper bringing together past and current generations of Iranian artists
The Importance of Being Hassan
Joobin Bekhrad catches up with Hassan Hajjaj to discuss being decorated by King Mohammed VI, growing up in Morocco and England, and a recent exhibition about black dandyism
Only in London
Joobin Bekhrad speaks with the Artistic Director of the Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab arts and culture about some of the highlights of this year’s edition in London
Memento Mori
A conversation with Alia Al-Senussi and Abdullah Al-Turki, two curators of the ICA’s inaugural ‘Cinema on the Steps’ film festival in London
Points of Departure
‘Palestine … is a possibility, a potentiality constantly on the threshold of physical reality’ - Rima Chahrour on the ‘Points of Departure’ exhibition at the ICA
Shooting the Cloud
‘Karam’s figures are sublime, mentally, ideologically, and physically transcending the socio-historical pressures of Lebanon’
Witness from Baghdad
‘In this life I was stripped of my humanity, but I have retrieved what is more sublime, more noble, through my dreams’ - Halim Al Karim
East Meets West
Tara Aghdashloo’s take on the Middle Eastern art and attractions at this year’s edition of the Frieze Art Fair in London