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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

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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
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The Age of Earthquakes

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A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era.50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that’s redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they ... Read more

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A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era.50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that’s redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair).When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a ... Read more

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking hard science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.What would happen if the world were ending?A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band ... Read more

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Hassan Fathy and Continuity in Islamic Arts and Architecture

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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
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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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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
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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

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