Publications

State of Cinema is a translation project by Bakhita Al Ameri, a translator and writer from Al Ain, UAE, who was the recipient of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual publishing grant (2021).

Landwalks: Across Palestine and South Africa is an ongoing creative research collaboration between the Palestinian Museum and the School of Architecture at the University of Cape Town, which was produced as part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Publishing Grant (2021).

‘(Fine) Arts Dissertation Series’ looks at the dissertations submitted by artists as part of their master's study at the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and was produced as part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Publishing Grant (2021).

How to Not Build a Nation is an eight-part experimental and research-oriented zine publication from artists and collaborators across south and southeast Asia on the ways in which nation states reproduce colonial and pre-colonial violences, and was produced as part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Publishing Grant (2021).

Corniche 4 expanded upon the previous editions by including new talent and voices through a UAE-focused open call. It brings together projects by 34 artists and illustrators from the UAE, who share techniques, themes, books, stories, drawings and experiences that culminate in a comic anthology.

The Flying Saucer: Experimental Texts in Science Fiction Literature celebrates The Flying Saucer building in Dasman and its symbolic value through 11 mythical stories around the science fiction genre.

The Afterlives of the Postcolonial was the theme of the 14th edition of March Meeting, Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual convening of artists, curators and art practitioners to explore critical issues in contemporary art through panels, lectures and performances.

Inji Efflatoun and the Mexican Muralists: Imaging Women and Work between Egypt and Mexico traces Efflatoun’s relationship with key figures in the Mexican mural movement, and was produced as part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Publishing Grant in 2020.

Widen the Circle: An Obscure Experimentation in North African Avant-Garde Cinema traces the colonial history present in North African cinema through three films, and was produced as part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Publishing Grant in 2020.

चित्रगोष्ट: Art Writings in Marathi (1930s–1960s) is as an initiative of हाकारा । hākārā, a peer-reviewed bilingual journal of creative expression that was the recipient of Sharjah Art Foundation’s Publishing Grant in 2020.

Originally commissioned, published and produced for Sharjah Biennial 9, this book contains two years of port records related to the Somali trade from the Sharjah creek, from where a large number of dhows leave for Somalia.

Becoming Van Leo is a study of the life and times of the late Armenian-Egyptian photographer. Born in 1921, Leon Boyadjian would come to be known as Van Leo, one of the most singular twentieth-century studio photographers in the Arab world.

The third iteration of Corniche brings together projects by 34 artists and illustrators from the UAE, who share techniques, themes, books, stories, drawings and experiences that culminate in a comic anthology.

Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination discusses the places, people, texts, ideas, and materials that have shaped the unique practice of the New York–based Egyptian artistcd Ahmed Morsi.

Creating Dangerously is a postscript to the discursive qualities biennials provide to artists, curators, thinkers and the broader arts community.