Publications

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).

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.

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.

Originally commissioned, published and produced for Sharjah Biennial 9 (2009), Beirut Bereft: The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict is a collaborative publication and exhibition project by Rasha Salti and Ziad Antar.

This Arabic Edition, of Ibrahim El-Salahi’s Prison Notebook, published by the Sharjah Art Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art, comprises a facsimile of the Prison Notebook; excerpts of Ibrahim El-Salahi’s personal memoirs; a contextualizing essay by art historian Salah Hassan that addresses the social and political milieu in which it was produced; and a contemporary commentary by the artist.

This English Edition, of Ibrahim El-Salahi’s Prison Notebook, published by The Museum of Modern Art and the Sharjah Art Foundation, comprises a facsimile of the Prison Notebook; an English translation of its prose; a contextualizing essay by art historian Salah Hassan that addresses the social and political milieu in which it was produced; and contemporary commentary by the artist.

This publication accompanied The Khartoum School: The Making of the Modern Art Movement in Sudan (1945 – present) exhibition. It is a collection of previously published essays from the early 1970s by the artist and writer Abdalla Ahmad Bashir, also known as Abdalla Bola, as weekly episodes in the pages of AlAyam newspaper.

A collaboration between poet Cristiana de Marchi and artist Hassan Sharif.

A book of artist instructions that anyone can use to make art.

Thinking What’s Thought-Provoking! is a new book series, consisting of five publications, edited by Jalal Toufic and published by Sharjah Art Foundation.