Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry 13 Acknowledgments / Jay A. Levenson and Sara Lookofsky 15 Introduction: About This Book / Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, Nada Shabout 18 Essay: The Making and Unmaking of the Arab World / Ussama Makdisi 28 Primary Documents Defining Painting 36 On the Benefits of Art 37 Arab Romantics 45 In Focus. Arab Romanticism / Stephen Sheehi 55 Letter from Algiers to Paris 57 Sculpture and the Public in Egypt 58 In Defense of Egyptian Popular Art 68 In Focus. Cairo''s School of Fine Arts and the Pedagogical Imperative / Dana Ramadan 72 Letter from Marrakesh to Algiers 73 On the Formation of a Modern Spirit 74 In Focus. Cultivation Discourses in the Arab East / Kristen Scheid 76 Viewing the Exhibition 77 Querying Art and Religion 80 The Neo-Orientalists/Cairo 86 Egyptian Art and Freedom Debates 87 Shaping the Fate of the Nation 106 Iraq''s Wartime Transformation 109 On Agony and Beauty 110 Contemporary Art Group/Cairo 113 Plates I (1-25) 117 Surrealist Sensitivities 133 Petition for the 1 Percent Law/Tunis 138 An Early Declaration of Huroufiyah 139 In Focus. Huroufiyah : The Arabic Letter as Visual Form 142 Imagining an Immortal Arab Art 144 Toward a Material Modernism 145 Baghdad Group for Modern Art 150 The Cultural Politics of Exhibitions 155 In Focus. The Nakba and Arab Culture / Nasser Rabbat 161 Algerian Group of the Lettrist International/Algiers 163 A Call to Human Heritage 164 Considering Arab Art and Artists 167 Reviewing the Iraqi Revolution 181 Proclaiming Arab Unity 186 In Focus.
Biennials and Arab Representation / Anneka Lenssen 191 Cairo: Limits on Freedom 192 Materials for a New Algerian Art 196 Plastic Arts Movement/Damascus 198 In Focus. Art and Political Patronage during the Cold War / Sarah Rogers 204 Making Spaces in Beirut 206 Personal Reflection. Three Years of Teaching Art in Khartoum, 1962-65 / Amir Nour 211 Plates II (26-49) 213 Art After the Algerian Revolution 229 Exploratory Abstraction 240 The Challenge of Art 243 Contemplative Art/Baghdad 252 Presenting New Tunisian Painting 256 Morocco''s Casablanca School Dialogues 263 Debating North African Art at Home and Away 279 Aouchem Group/Algiers and Blida 292 Circulism and Kinetics in Kuwait 294 In Focus. Experiments in Modern Arabic Typography / Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarés 301 Accounting for the June 1967 War 303 Personal Reflection. From Dreams to Achievements: A Jordanian Artist in the Era of 1968 / Mona Saudi 322 Exhibition at Djema Al Fna/Marrakesh 323 Transforming the Arts of the Revolution 324 In Focus. Revolutionary Film: The Palestine Film Unit / Mohanad Yaqubi 333 Arab Art in Federation 335 Exhibition Articulations in Iraq 343 Personal Reflection. Notes on Contact Art Gallery, 1972-85 / Waddah Faris 351 A Transregional Critical Terrain 352 Art and the Letter 357 The Diasporic Divide 362 New Realism/Baghdad 367 Response to the October 1973 War 369 Personal Reflection. Graphic Design and the Visual Arts in Iraq / Dia al-Azzawi 370 In Focus.
Graphic Art in the Arab World / May Muzaffar 372 Arab Biennial Initiatives and Critiques 374 Life as a Palestinian Artist 387 Khartoum Dialogues 393 Second Arab Biennial in Rabat 408 On the Desert Style in Saudi Arabia 412 Thinking Through Culture During the Lebanese Civil Wars 415 Environmental Art at Asilah 419 In Focus. Yemen''s Free Atelier: History and Context in the Arabian Peninsula / Anahi Alviso-Marino 424 The Closure of Gallery 79/Ramallah 426 Debating Commitment in a New Egypt 427 Contemporary Modes in the United Arab Emirates 443 Personal Reflection. Along New Paths: The New Visions Art Collective in Occupied Palestine / Vera Tamari 446 Index 449 Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art 464.