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“bassem el baroni”

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  • Rewiring Narratives

    New Media Art from the Arab World

    by Haytham Nawar, Ala Younis, Shumon Basar, Yasmin Desouki, Bassem El Baroni, Ahmed El Shaer, Melissa Gronlund, Samia Halaby, Laura Marks0, Ahmed Mater1, Yasser Mongy2, Laila Shereen Sakr3, Abdel Aziz Taleb4, Akram Zaatari5, Rutger Fuchs7 ...
    Rewiring Narratives – New Media Art from the Arab WorldRewiring Narratives is the first comprehensive book on New Media Art from the Arab world, offering a groundbreaking perspective on contemporary art, digital art, media culture, and technological innovation across the Middle East and North Africa.Bringing together leading artists, curators, and scholars, this richly illustrated volume explores ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The Birth of a New Modern

    by Ahmad Hamid ...
    Hassan Fathy, the Egyptian architect known for his recognition of the potential of vernacular forms as a vital force in contemporary architectural design, sought to integrate the traditions of Islamic art with his modern visions for living. Guided by Fathy's principles, Ahmad Hamid, an architect who collaborated with Hassan Fathy in the Institute for Appropriate Technology, identifies questions ... Read more

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  • Music and Media in the Arab World

    Edited by Michael Frishkopf ...
    Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media disseminationfrom phonograph cylinders to MP3seach subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era and region. Carried by mass media, the broader culture of Arab music has been thoroughly ... Read more

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  • Hanan al-Cinema

    Affections for the Moving Image

    by Laura U. Marks ...
    Series series Leonardo
    An examination of experimental cinema and media art from the Arabic-speaking world that explores filmmakers' creative and philosophical inventiveness in trying times.In this book, Laura Marks examines one of the world's most impressive, and affecting, bodies of independent and experimental cinema from the last twenty-five years: film and video works from the Arabic-speaking world. Some of these ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Women Write Iran

    Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora

    by Nima Naghibi ...
    Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels—and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution as a traumatic event and by a powerful nostalgia for an idealized ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Translating Dissent

    Voices From and With the Egyptian Revolution

    Edited by Mona Baker ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media
    *Written by the winners of the Inttranews Linguists of the Year award for 2016!*Discursive and non-discursive interventions in the political arena are heavily mediated by various acts of translation that enable protest movements to connect across the globe. Focusing on the Egyptian experience since 2011, this volume brings together a unique group of activists who are able to reflect on the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Shooting a Revolution

    Visual Media and Warfare in Syria

    by Donatella Della Ratta ...
    Series series Digital Barricades
    From ISIS propaganda videos to popular regime-backed TV series and digital activism, the Syrian conflict has been dramatically affected by the production of media, at the same time generating in its turn an impressive visual culture. Yet what are the aesthetic, political and material implications of the collusion between the production of this sheer amount of visual media being continuously shared ... Read more

    $25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cosmopolitan Radicalism

    The Visual Politics of Beirut's Global Sixties

    by Zeina Maasri ...
    Series Book 13 - The Global Middle East
    Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this compelling interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon's history, marked by anticolonial struggle and complicated by a Cold War order. Against a celebratory reminiscence of the 'golden years', Beirut's long 1960s is conceived of as a liminal ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Code and Clay, Data and Dirt

    Five Thousand Years of Urban Media

    by Shannon Mattern ...
    For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence, maybe for millennia? In Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Shannon Mattern advances the provocative argument that our urban spaces have been “smart” and mediated for thousands of years.Offering powerful new ways of ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Naked Blogger of Cairo

    Creative Insurgency in the Arab World

    by Marwan M. Kraidy ...
    A Times Higher Education Book of the YearUprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire that called for the overthrow of dictators and the regimes that sustained them. ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Painting, Photography, Drawing. From Africa and Its Diaspora

    selected writings

    by Elisa Pierandrei ...
    The Italian journalist Elisa Pierandrei reflects on the present situation of the visual arts in Africa and the African diaspora through a selection of her articles and interviews that for the most have previously been published by various online media outlets. In her new e-book, she guides the reader along the stories of 12 contemporary artists (Helina Metaferia, Lunga Ntila, Benjamin Deguenon, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Alternative Iran

    Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice

    by Pamela Karimi ...
    Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the pressures of the art market and the state's regulatory regimes. Since the 1980s, political, economic, and intellectual forces have driven Iran's creative class toward increasingly original forms of artmaking not meant for official venues. Instead, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD