Initiated by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation in 2011, Ibraaz is the leading critical forum on visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East. We publish an annual online platform that focuses on research questions conceived through a network of editorial contributors based in the Middle East and beyond. Ibraaz Platform 010 marks our fifth year in production and considers the following question: ‘What can the regional politics of cultural production across North Africa and the Middle East tell us about the politics of global cultural production today?’ Ibraaz also publishes a series of books under the Visual Culture in the Middle East title. Edited by Ibraaz Editorin-Chief, Anthony Downey, Volume 3 in the series is Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East (forthcoming, Sternberg Press, 2016). Future Imperfect contains essays, interviews and projects from contributors www.ibraaz.org
including Monira Al Qadiri, Hoor Al-Qasimi, Anahi Alviso-Marino, AMBS Architects, Stephanie Bailey, Eray Çaylı, Rachel Dedman, Elizabeth Derderian, Anthony Downey, Karen Exell, Reema Salha Fadda, Wafa Gabsi, Hadia Gana, Adalet R. Garmiany, Baha Jubeh, Suhair Jubeh, Amal Khalaf, Kamel Lazaar, Jens Maier-Rothe, Guy Mannes-Abbott, Doreen Mende, Lea Morin, Jack Persekian, Rijin Sahakian, Gregory Sholette, Tom Snow, Ania Szremski, Christine Tohme, Toleen Touq, William Wells, Ala Younis, Yasmine Zidane, and online projects by Monira Al Qadiri, Leila Al-Shami, Wided Rihana Khadraoui, Lois Stonock and Nile Sunset Annex. Other titles in the series include Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East (IB Tauris, 2015); and Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East (IB Tauris, 2014). www.kamellazaarfoundation.org