The Curtain Rises: In conversation with Noorain Inam and Zarina Muhammad
It is a special sight to see friendship transform into creative collaboration – even more meaningful to get to observe it. It is arguably the…
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Against Archives of Emptiness: Ghost Women and the Politics of Memory in the Khaleej
“Inside the woman a lake of funerals” —Zaina Alsous, Bird Prelude Beyond the theatre of the archive, preservation and memory are now popular buzzwords in…
What are we willing to see with Mohamed Bourouissa?
I first encountered Mohamed Bourouissa’s work at 18, searching for a visual vocabulary to make sense of my own identity. Growing up in a predominantly…
Eltiqa brings two decades of Gaza’s art and resistance to Dubai
Amid bombardment and displacement, Gaza’s longest-running art collective, Eltiqa, continues to create, producing work shaped by survival, memory, and collective resistance. Now, with their first…
A History Felt in the Gut
On the eve of Nowruz, in 19th-century Qajar-era Iran, love between women could be formalised in secret. A ritual known as Sigheh Khahari—the sisterhood vow—involved…