...Iris Gilad [email protected] Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today . Ceren Özpınar and Mary Kelly , eds. Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press , 2020 . xviii + 201 pages. isbn...

... commentary on another work, Fate (2018), a piece shown at the Bin Matar House Art Space in Bahrain, Al Khalifa laments the “pain and suffering” of refugee boats trying to reach the shore, of helpless bodies blown by angry winds, of lives lost. She writes, “I have no power to take away their pain...

... at the same time. The painting was featured as the poster and catalog cover for my exhibition Intersections , which took place in March 2019 at the Gezira Art Center in Cairo under the auspices of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. The idea behind the painting, and the exhibition as a whole, is that all...

...Fakhri Haghani Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 This issue’s cover art, Samira Alikhanzadeh’s Ata and Aziz Troupe, 1291 A.P. , part of the artist’s series Centennial , illustrates the centennial celebration of the emergence of female musicians...

...Ellen McLarney Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 The Egyptian Laila El Sadda is part of the Art Trio, a collective of women artists that also includes al-Assmaa Taki Deen and Mariam Mahdy. El Sadda’s art reflects her practice, showing the intimacy...

... along the axes of gender, race, class, nationality, and legal status. In this context, the word triage , visible in this issue’s cover art contribution by artist and writer Molly Crabapple, has acquired an increasingly necropolitical meaning that marks who should have access to care and who should...

... She initially came to this understanding, her memoir implies, through the embodied experience of being female in a patriarchal art world and by financing her early efforts to gain entry into that world through sex work. Working alternately as a sex worker, a nude artist’s model (the art world’s own...

... from the Higher Institute of Art Education for Women Teachers in Cairo, today known as the College of Arts Education ( kulliyyat al-tarbiya al-fanniyya ). Afterward she traveled to Paris, Rome, and London to further her studies. She is known for her richly colored canvases that she made over seven...

... was studying fine arts at RISD [Rhode Island School of Design]. A lot has changed since then, but also many things have stayed the same.” I corresponded with Sinai in the last days of September 2022, during the early days of the mass protests that shook Iran in the fall—revolts that, most likely...

... with remnants of war: tanks, helmets, or, as in this picture, a barricade of sandbags. The art may solicit an initial chuckle from the spectator given the absurdity of the scene. But ultimately the work compels the grave realization of the subtle yet pervasive presence of violence and loss. Dashti’s photographs...

... Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 I am a cross-disciplinary artist and a researcher, and my work explores the collaborative potential between art and the biological sciences. My conceptual work Saltwater Heart (2015), installed on the deck...

... at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, with an accompanying solo exhibition. A midcareer retrospective of her work will be exhibited at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in a solo exhibition, In Her Image ; her work will also be exhibited at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris from September 12...

...Suhair Sibai; Frances S. Hasso Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 How can any work of art fully capture what exists beyond the work—personal experience and emotion? I aim for evocative imagery that charges the soul and pierces our beings. I have...