Articles By: Jo Lawson-Tancred

 Sara Niroobakhsh
Lactation is one of many complex bodily processes that appear to work like magic. After…
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Nour Jaouda
Foreigners Everywhere, curator Adriano Pedrosa’s main exhibition at last year’s 60th Venice Biennale, explicitly centred…
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Fares Thabet
The beauty of our surroundings is often heightened in the mind’s eye, becoming a vision…
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Aya Haidar
Unlike paintings or sculptures, which sit in the rarified realm of the museum, textiles have…
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Azza Al Qubaisi
Rising up from the sands of Giza is a tall and majestic pyramid, but this…
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Moza Almatrooshi
This spring, anyone driving past the busy landmark roundabout bearing the message “Smile, you are in…
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Mounira Al Solh
An opulent ceremonial round tent made in the 19th century and currently owned by the…
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Turning the Pages of Life
A book is “a carrier of experience”, according to the Indian artist Nalini Malani. She…
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Noor Abed
For the first four minutes of Noor Abed’s latest film, our songs were ready for…
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Manal AlDowayan
Of the 26 artists from Saudi Arabia exhibiting at the inaugural Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale,…
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